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c/hplc·posted 2 years ago by u/chain_confirm_c

[Results] 91 weeks on 5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring

Discussion Clean Column ×9 Well Actually ×2 Receipts ×1

Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.

The advice on chromatogram in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.

I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.

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u/rasmus_petrescu808 points·2 years ago

two labs, two different baselines, two different purity numbers, both honest

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u/egfr_watcher1.2k points·2 years ago

Injection volume and flow rate? Those affect resolution.

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u/micro_bump_mick433 points·2 years ago

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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u/sig_figs_samMOD364 points·2 years ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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[deleted]262 points·2 years ago

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u/quiet_reader_99166 points·2 years ago

state the method: column, gradient, detection wavelength, injection volume

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u/endotoxin_elliemicro-35 points·2 years ago

This is the correct method framing. Column and gradient are load-bearing fields.

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u/chain_confirm_cpayments195 points·2 years ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with chromatogram, not with what you concluded.

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u/hamza_weiss201 points·2 years ago

axis labels included, always

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u/rania_okonkwo181 points·2 years ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/nora_lundgren58 points·2 years ago

Yeah, the chromatogram profile matters more than the headline number.

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u/ewan_zielinski120 points·2 years ago

the detector wavelength matters more than people think

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u/hedda_ekstrom159 points·2 years ago·edited

Gradient goblin mode: changed the solvent composition 4 times, finally got good resolution on a chromatogram peak.

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u/anya_erdogan38 points·2 years ago

What was the column and what gradient?

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u/reverse_image_ron56 points·2 years ago

area% and mass% are not the same and this whole post conflates them

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u/fatima_yildiz34 points·2 years ago

Detection wavelength? method development and that changes at different wavelengths.

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u/chain_confirm_cOPpayments15 points·2 years ago

two labs, two different baselines, two different purity numbers, both honest

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u/careful_gradient78 points·2 years ago

This is the correct method framing. Column and gradient are load-bearing fields.

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u/alcohol_aversion112 points·2 years ago

Detection wavelength? integration and that changes at different wavelengths.

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u/marisol_frisk42 points·2 years ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with chromatogram, not with what you concluded.

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u/samir_falk95 points·2 years ago

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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u/erez_yilmaz64 points·2 years ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/chain_confirm_cOPpayments28 points·2 years ago

co-elution is real and LC-MS is usually not enough to resolve it

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u/cormac_roos52 points·2 years ago

Yeah, the chromatogram profile matters more than the headline number.

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u/insulin_syringe_ian50 points·2 years ago

This is the correct method framing. Column and gradient are load-bearing fields.

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u/canada_coverage23 points·2 years ago

Slight fix: the number was 96.8, not 98.1. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/rina_nascimento10 points·2 years ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/chain_confirm_cOPpayments8 points·2 years ago

Gradient goblin mode: changed the solvent composition 22 times, finally got good resolution on a method development peak.

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u/marisol_frisk11 points·2 years ago

two labs, two different baselines, two different purity numbers, both honest

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u/teodor_szabo49 points·2 years ago

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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