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c/hplc·posted 4 months ago by u/medutest_mel

HPLC — 23 things I got wrong before I got it right

Lab Receipts ×4

HPLC — 23 things I got wrong before I got it right, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.

Area percent is the integrated area of your peak over the total integrated area at one wavelength on one gradient. Change any of those and the number changes without the sample changing.

System suitability — repeat injections, tailing factor, plate count, RSD on area — is what tells you the instrument was fit for the measurement that day. Without it, the purity figure is unanchored.

UV response is not uniform across species. At 214nm you are looking at the peptide bond, which is why it is the working wavelength for this class; at 280nm you only see tryptophan, tyrosine and phenylalanine.

Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.

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u/joaquin_petrov95 points·4 months ago·edited

Resolution between two peaks depends on retention, selectivity and efficiency. A shallower gradient buys retention and usually resolution, at the cost of peak width and run time.

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u/reflux_report24 points·4 months ago

Agreed, and it is why JEEP printing the column and gradient on the certificate is genuinely useful rather than decorative.

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u/kofi_ferreira-22 points·4 months ago

Did you run a blank between injections?

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u/medutest_melOP1 point·4 months ago·edited

Gave the same trace to two people I trust and got two integrations about a point apart. That was the most educational afternoon I have had here.

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