Chromatography Forum

Would anybody be willing to provide me with material (e.g. timelines, charts, presentations...) that I could use as background information in creating a comprehensive presentation on the development of LC instruments/column phases? I would not necessarily need to copy/paste the data but maybe just pick something from it. Thank you very much.

If my memory is correct, I believe that LC.GC magazine has had some articles on the history of HPLC. You can search there.

One of the more useful histories about the development of HPLC columns is in the following article:

The Early Days of HPLC at DuPont
Feb 1, 2009 LCGC North America
Written By: Richard A. Henry

There are some additional 'histories' that have some additional details.
One is at: http://www.chromsoc.com/resources/1/New ... ndbook.pdf

And you might also want to look at some of the history of GPC/SEC and ion exchange chromatography since a lot of the column technologies used in early HPLC came about because of the materials used in these other separation approaches, both of which were going strong long before HPLC took off.