Welcome to Volume 2, Issue 3 of Chromatography Today. This is in fact the seventh issue since we started and also the seventh I have had the pleasure of introducing. It is also the last I will be introducing, having
completed my term of office as President of The Chromatographic Society in July this year.When taking up the position of President there were a few key aims and objectives that had to be addressed. Just one of these was to do more on the communications side of our efforts to do everything we can do support the development of separation sciences. However the opportunity to develop an association with Chromatography Today, while not coming completely out of the blue, was a pleasant surprise, evolving as it did from our regular contributions to International Labmate. Chromatography Today has been an important new initiative for the Chromatographic Society over the past two years.We hope that this will continue for a long time to come.
It is gratifying that the theme for this issue is chiral separations, a field in which I have been involved off-and-on for over thirty years now, dating back to times when resolving enantiomers was a seriously difficult challenge. As would be expected, we present to you all the latest developments in the field. These focus on the latest developments in chiral method development strategies, ranging from the use of chiral stationary phases (CSP) based on 3-μm particles to the use of multiple capillaries in parallel. The article by Norbert Maier covers ion exchange CSP, one of the few genuinely new clasess of CSP since the late 80’s, and continues our recurring
focus on the Society’s medalists in essence serving as a tribute to 2009 Martin Gold Medallist, Wolfgang Lindner. For something a bit different, the article by Charlotte Weekes is to be commended. Not only is chiral separations important now, the chiral separations that were taking place in the 1980’s are still important now! As usual we are brimming over with content and have managed to include content that has had to be held over from previous issues plus reports from important meetings from early summer i.e.the Societies Spring Symposium on ‘Hypenated Techniques’ and HPLC2009 (where medal presentations took place). Don’t be surprised if you find some chiral content in the next issue of Chromatography Today. This will have a preparative chromatography theme and will include a report on the “Big Prep 5” meeting which is taking place at GSK,
Stevenage on September 17th and 18th.
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