Improved Recovery of Analytes

Merck launched a range of including HPLC columns, GC columns and tools for effective analysis of water and easier sample preparation. Pittcon 2016 marked the first major conference at which the combined businesses of Merck and Sigma Aldrich, which was acquired for $17 billion by Merck at the end of last year, exhibited together.

Among new life science products were new categories of Cerilliant® Certified Reference Materials, including bile acids, antiretrovirals and fatty acids for quantification of  therapeutic drugs and endogeneous biomarkers.

Other launches included the Spectroquant^® Prove Spectrophotometers for analysis of waste water, drinking water, beverages and process water and the Watercol™ GC column with a stationary phase designed to produce a sharp peak shape for water.

The Ascentis^® Express Biphenyl chromatography column is a new U/HPLC column that offers alternative selectivity for pharmaceutical analytes and drug metabolites that are not well retained or difficult to resolve on traditional alkyl (C18) and phenyl bonded phases.

The SLB^® IL (i-series) capillary GC columns provide both selectivity and inertness toward polar analytes; while the Supel™ QuE Verde sorbent is a new QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged and Safe) sorbent for the analysis of challenging compounds in green matrices.