These workshops will be offered on Wednesday, October 8 and Thursday, October 9. Cost to attend is $150.00 per workshop.

Ion chromatography (IC) was once considered to be a specialty technique that required special expertise and was limited to inorganic ions, but through continuous innovation in instrumentation and chemistry, Dionex has evolved IC into an easy-to-use tool that addresses a broad range of analytical needs. Modern Dionex IC instruments are excellent tools for analyzing broad range of organic and inorganic compounds.

In this workshop, you'll learn how Reagent-Free™ electrolytic technologies have simplified IC, eliminating manual eluent preparation and improving quality of results. You'll learn how advances in temperature control and pumping precision have made results incredibly repeatable - day to day, month to month, lab to lab. You'll learn how to tap the power of Gradient IC, and how you can use Virtual Column™ to optimize IC separations in seconds without doing any lab work. And you'll see how Chromeleon completes the picture, with complete automation and data analysis for state-of-the-art ion chromatography.

When you have a really tough analytical problem, you need special tools. Whether your challenge is to determine analytes at trace levels, eliminate matrix interferences, or analyze compounds that are invisible to common detectors, Dionex has solutions.

In this workshop, you'll learn about techniques for on-line sample preconcentration and matrix elimination. You'll learn how to use the Standard Addition quantitation technique in Chromeleon to determine analytes in complex matrices, or at levels below the minimum you can prepare in a calibration solution. You'll learn about two-dimensional "heart-cutting" techniques that boost sensitivity and improve selectivity without changing your detection mode. You'll learn about 3-D Amperometry, a pioneering technology for determination of electroactive compounds such as carbohydrates, alcohols, aldehydes, amines, thiols, alkenes, alkynes, and aromatics. And you'll learn about IC-MS, the ultimate technique for sensitive, specific determination of polar and ionic compounds.

Polar and ionic compounds often present special analytical challenges. They are generally too involatile for GC, and they often are unretained or poorly separated on traditional LC stationary phases such as C18-bonded silica. Non-chromophoric compounds, whether polar or not, require special detection techniques that often necessitate alternate approaches to the chromatographic separation.

In this workshop, you’ll learn about unique stationary phases for LC and IC that can separate anionic, neutral, and cationic compounds with high selectivity and high resolution. You’ll also learn about the range of detection options available to address challenging analytical problems, and about Chromeleon features that support some of the more advanced techniques.