| Topic No. |
Title: |
| 1. |
Fundamentals of liquid chromatography |
| 2. |
Development of methods in HPLC - various modes of liquid
chromatography |
| 3. |
Reversed phase chromatography- chemistry and geometry of
the columns |
| 4. |
Sample Preparation: Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) |
| 5. |
Detection in liquid chromatography: General guidelines UV,
Fluorescence, Mass-spectrometry, Refractive Index and Electrochemical detectors |
| 6. |
Photo-diode-array (PDA) detectors: Principle of operation,
Peak purity, Spectral matching |
| 7. |
Liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC-MS) for the
positive identification of unknown compounds |
| 8. |
Gradient conditions - Principles and guidelines |
| 9. |
QUANTITATIVE WORK IN HPLC
1 . Peak integration in HPLC - Integration events and calibration methods |
| 10. |
2 . Validation of chromatographic methods - System suitability,
precision, accuracy, limit of detection, limit of quantification etc. |
| 11. |
3. Analysis of impurities and degradation products - "working
in the ppm world" |
| 12. |
Preparative chromatography - considerations in scaling up
a separation |
| 13. |
System peaks in liquid chromatography - Their origin and
formation, how to live with/without them |
| 14. |
Chiral chromatography for the analysis of enantiomers |
| 15. |
Analysis of ions - Ion Chromatography (IC) and Capillary
Ion Analysis (CIA) |
| 16. |
Analysis of polymers - Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)
for the determination of molecular weight distribution |