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News Release from: Advanced Chemistry Development | Subject: Column Selector
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial Team on 06 July 2006

Take the guess work out of column
selection

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Advanced Chemistry Development, (ACD/Labs) has announces the latest update to Column Selector, a freeware reversed-phase HPLC column selection tool

The latest upgrade to Column Selector, Advanced Chemistry Development's freeware reversed-phase HPLC column selection tool, increases the number of columns available for selection from 153 to 187, which will allow chromatographers to compare and contrast the latest columns, and help take the guesswork out of column selection Column Selector was created through a collaboration with Mel Euerby and Patrik Petersson of AstraZeneca

The freeware application was developed from over 3000 experiments characterising the most commonly-used reversed-phase columns.

Patrik Petersson, associate principal scientist at AstraZeneca, states: "Column Selector allows chromatographers to scientifically compare the most popular columns according to certain parameters (ligand density, hydrophobic selectivity, shape selectivity, hydrogen bonding capacity, total ion-exchange capacity, and acidic ion-exchange capacity).

"Users may identify equivalent columns (backup columns) as well as columns with widely differing characteristics to fully exploit selectivity differences in method development".

Mike McBrien, chromatography product manager at ACD/Labs, comments: "The team at AstraZeneca has done a tremendous job in characterising the world's most popular columns.

"It's commendable that they've made this information available to the chromatographic community in this way".

Column Selector is a free ChemBasic application that runs within freeware ChemSketch.

Both Column Selector and ChemSketch may be downloaded from ACDLabs's website.

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