Fundamentals of Solid Phase Extraction

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Chromatography is a relatively straightforward separation technology, but there are always opportunities to increase your operating knowledge and receive reminders about forgotten features and tips to improve efficiency and data quality.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has organize a series of webinars, where you can learn from their extensive range of application scientists about all aspects of chromatography from solvents and sample preparation, gas, ion and liquid chromatography, through to chromatography data system software. Understand where problems are likely to occur, what are the most common issues and how these can be alleviated, changing your approach and methodology for different applications and shortcuts for more efficient and productive chromatography.

Fundamentals of solid phase extraction (SPE) are explained using drugs of abuse as an example for analyte functionalities. Objectives of sample preparation will be discussed, including different types of sample preparations. When to use which sample preparation and what is important to know for parameters like bed volume, chemistry, analyte polarity and all those little things that have to be taken under consideration.
Fundamentals are explained showing different extraction methods and how to adopt them for your analytes. Troubleshooting for SPE is discussed.
Comparisons are shown for liquid-liquid extraction and SPE. Where are the advantages using SPE and when to use which SPE technology.

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