Q: WHAT IS THE FOCUS OF YOUR LAB’S RESEARCH?
A: The focus of the team is to develop innovative products and applications for thin layer chromatography (TLC). Intensive research and development is done to couple TLC with mass spectrometry (TLC/CMS), a field of growing interest.
Q: WHAT PREVIOUS WORKFLOW CHALLENGES DID YOU EXPERIENCE?
A: Our major workflow issue is to shorten product development times and to deliver our customer valuable applications for new products. The CMS in combination with the elution based TLC/MS interface supports us reaching these goals.
Q: WHY DID YOU INCORPORATE THE EXPRESSION CMS INTO YOUR LABORATORY?
A: The expression CMS is a compact, robust and easy-to-use instrument. Together with the elution based TLC/MS interface, an affordable complete system is on the market, providing a great opportunity that can advance the TLC/CMS technology.
Q: What is the focus of your lab’s research?
A: Our laboratory is primarily a teaching laboratory for undergraduate and graduate students to gain exposure to current chemistry technology. Several techniques are practiced for medicinal chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry applications including TLC, reaction monitoring, and UV-vis.
Q: Why did you incorporate the expression cMs into your laboratory?
A: As a small university, we face unique challenges of limited resources in both space and funding. Mass spectrometers are a powerful detector, and it is important that our students gain exposure to this analytical technique; however, purchasing one was out of our reach. The expression CMS has allowed us to not only bring this commonly used technology to the hands of our students, but also has resulted in faster data. Our students no longer have to wait up to a month for results from an outsourced partner. They know right away whether what they set to accomplish was successful.
Q: Who Would you recoMMend to purchase the expression cMs?
A: I recommend the expression CMS to all teaching labs that wish to expose their students to this technology in a fast and easy-to-use platform.
The expression CMS was developed with the chemist’s objectives and laboratory workflow in mind. Organic, Natural Product and Peptide chemists utilize many techniques to determine the progress, yield and purity of their reactions.
