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Flash chromatography is an integral part of the organic synthesis workflow. For most chemists, they make a compound once and then move on to the next synthesis. Sometimes, the synthesis needs to be sc...
Flash chromatography is nearly ubiquitous within organic and medicinal chemistry labs. Most chemists, when the need arises to purify a reaction mixture, will use a silica column (aka normal-phase) for...
Who knew there were so many different parts to a QuEChERS approach! The nice thing about QuEChERS is even though there are a few different steps to capture your target analytes, they are all Quick, Ea...
If you have ever worked in an environmental laboratory, you might have heard of EPA method 1664B. Method 1664B is an extraction method with analysis by gravimetry that measures oil and grease in waste...
You might be saying to yourself, QuEChERS isn’t an extraction, it’s just QuEChERS! I know when I think extraction, I think of your traditional liquid-liquid or solid-phase extraction where you have a ...
When it comes to chromatographic analysis, it’s no surprise that the analytes of interest are the main focus. After all, those are the compounds one wishes to isolate and quantitate to report to their...
Synthesis workflow is the journey taken by chemists when creating a molecule. This journey can be like taking the interstate with no traffic lights and higher speed limits but usually this trip is mor...
While polar compound purification is frequently performed using a silica column and a DCM/MeOH solvent system, there is a need to reduce its use in chromatography for a number of reasons. First, dichl...
If you are working in an environmental lab and encounter tissue samples and highly contaminated petroleum soil samples that create a lot of noise and interference on your analytical instruments, then ...
Environmental laboratories are often required to demonstrate that their procedures do not introduce background contamination or interferences that would result in false positives or poor analytical pe...