What was 'hot' in Chromatography 30 years ago?

[Greyhoundchrom]

We're celebrating 30 years in business next year, distributing Certified Reference Standards and chromatography consumables. We want to mark the event and wondered what was happening 30 years ago - so far the most exciting thing that seems to have happened is the release of Michael Jackson's Thriller album. What would you say was the most interesting chromatography event in 1982?

Sue
Greyhound Chromatography and Allied Chemicals

http://www.greyhoundchrom.com

[krickos]

Found a review article covering 1982, might be helpful.

Science 15 October 1982:
Vol. 218 no. 4569 pp. 235-241
DOI: 10.1126/science.218.4569.235
Liquid Chromatography in 1982
David H. Freeman
Abstract
Classical liquid chromatography gave rise 15 years ago to new ideas about high-speed separations. Today, difficult separations can be made almost routinely by use of liquid chromatography instruments with automated controls and sensitive detectors. Sorptive effects are often best achieved with small, porous, "bonded phase" particles. The trend is to control the chemical selectivity by means of the liquid phase. These techniques are easily learned, and they have been widely accepted throughout chemistry and its allied disciplines. As a result, liquid chromatography has become the most rapidly expanding branch of the chemical instrumentation field.

[krickos]

and ohh for all IC and chromeleon lovers, Dionex went public in 1982

[GOM]

Hi Sue,

First, let me say that I have dealt with your company over many years very successfully and I work only a few miles away from you.

However, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but I am getting the impression that your posts are more to do with advertising your company.

Kind regards

Ralph

[Greyhoundchrom]

I genuinely do want some pointers for 30 years ago. I wasn't with the company then, I wasn't even in Chromatography. Most of it is still a mystery to me so any suggestions would be welcomed. I do want to promote our company but thought it would be good to have a promotion around something significant from when the company started, I thought that the forum would provide some interesting suggestions but so far nothing much.

Perhaps you have some suggestions?

[Peter Apps]

Hi Sue

If you can get hold of a copy of "A Century of Separation Science" by H.A. Issaq you'll probably get something that you can use. I think that Leslie Ettre also did some retrospectives - I don't recall the details though and they might only apply to GC.

1982 was too late for the birth of silica columns, computing integrators were already widely used, bench top MS might have been pretty new ?? Cross-linked stationary phases were being developed or refined - handy but hardly a major leap. The Grobs were getting started on large volume injections around that time, or maybe earlier.

It was the year that I started in GC, the consequences on a world scale have been underwhelming.

Peter

[Greyhoundchrom]

It was the year that I started in GC, the consequences on a world scale have been underwhelming.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll see if I can find a copy of the book. Maybe it's on a dusty shelf in our library - there are a lot of books there.

I can't agree with your comment about your contribution being underwhelming, I've visited your project website and you're doing very impressive work! Good luck with your research.

Sue Baker
http://www.greyhoundchrom.com

[Consumer Products Guy]

1982 was about the time that fused-silica capillary GC columns became popular. And HPLC units/reversed-phase columns had advanced to where things were pretty reproducible. And early, semi-computerized systems became popular with automated integration, autosampling, etc.

[remesquaddie]

That's about the time that WATERS C18 " Bondapack " column became the to -go -for column for an enormous amount of separations. Still alive today.

1982 was about the time that fused-silica capillary GC columns became popular. And HPLC units/reversed-phase columns had advanced to where things were pretty reproducible. And early, semi-computerized systems became popular with automated integration, autosampling, etc.

[DSP007]

In memory of esteemed Anatoly Rodionov and Eugene Styskina, my teachers!
Books 1982-1986 and 1984, respectively. In Russian, but pictures and reading lists should look now.
http://letitbit.net/download/1523372/93 ... 2.rar.html

http://depositfiles.com/ru/files/sojrqpcmk

[Csaba]

Hi,
It was about the time LC columns with 5 µm particles became common, for instance BrownLee cartridge system. And 10 µm particles was "old" news. (In my opinion, 5 µm particles haves lasted exceptioanally long time) Phamacia launced columns with 5 µm Monobeads for protein separations. It was plastic particles with exceptional low pressure for the size.

Hewlett-Packard launched diod array spectrometers!

[lmh]

May I reiterate: It was the year Peter Apps started in GC.

[bisnettrj2]

And in 1982, I was learning how to make sounds into words, and later put them into sentences. It was a year of great accomplishment for me.

[chromatographer1]

1982 I was a little behind the curve, working for a very conservative company.

I had a PE 900 GC, a PE 3920B GC, a Sigma 3B GC, and a Tracor GC. (NO AUTOSAMPLERS)

I had three capillary GC columns: all 30 meters, 0.25mm ID and 0.25µm film, SPB-1, SP-2330, and Supelcowax.

I had several GC 1/8 inch SS packed columns with glass wool: OV-1, OV-101, SE-30, Carbowax 20M, OV-17, Apiezon L, Porapak Q, Chromosorb 101, Chromosorb 103. (Alltech and Supelco)

We were making our own TLC plates with MERCK 60A silica and Cellulose, doing normal phase TLC, with and without phosphorus on glass, and buying PEI ion exchange on plastic, and reverse C18 on plastic and glass.

I packed 3ft column chromatography columns for dye separations. Using paper chromatography for chlorophyll and mercury compound separations.

I began to train on two brand new HPLCs from PE with UV detectors WITH AUTOSAMPLERS!

I was working 50 hours a week for $12,500 a year. I got almost every Saturday and Sunday off.

Rodney George

[Karen01]

In 1982 i was using Milton-Roy pump with a 2 wavelength UV detector and manual rehodyne injector all cobbled together to do RF HPLC.. IIRC I was using mostly 10um µBondapak columns. I made gradients by using a peristaltic pump to add B to the mixing reservoir at the same rate the milton Roy pump was withdrawing it, mixing with magnetic sir plate.

The shape of the gradient was controlled by the size of the mixing reservoir (erlenmeyer flask)... I've always wondered if Water's gradient curves stemmed from trying to reproduce those types of gradients.

No this was not in school, but actually in industry even though more 'modern' commercial instruments existed by then.

I was also doing size exclusion and IEX open column chromatography for peptides and proteins, sometimes with Sep-pak concentration steps as well as normal and reversed phase TLCs.

- Karen