The benefits of going small

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Waters Corp. (NYSE: WAT) announced a formal agreement on June 11 to exchange instrument controls to improve the productivity of customers who own software and instruments from both companies.

This application note from Waters discusses a UPC² method that was successfully developed to separate the three most common carotenoids in less than two minutes.

The UPC²/MS FFA analysis described here provides a simple and fast method with a significant reduction in analysis time compared to alternative techniques such as GC/MS, which requires FAME derivatization.

This application note shows the benefits of quick separation of hydrophobic vitamins and carotenes.

Learn about a flexible, universal method developed for the analysis of inter-class separations of neutral and amphipathetic lipids in this application note.