New Chromatography Columns and Accessories at Pittcon 2008: Part I

This month's installment of "Column Watch" is the first of a two-part series in which columnist Ron Majors examines the trends and highlights in columns and consumables at Pittcon 2008. Here, he discusses new high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) columns and packings, including reversed-phase, ion-exchange, ion chromatography, size-exclusion, and specialty columns.

Ronald E. Majors
Pittcon 2008 — the 59th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy — was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1–7, 2008, the first time the Conference has returned there since the Katrina disaster. This year's event hosted more than 1150 instrument manufacturers and laboratory suppliers in more than 2500 booths. In addition to attending the exposition, the conferees listened to 1250 oral presentations, viewed more than 1000 posters, checked numerous company seminar rooms, or attended one of 114 short courses.