HPLC method development software

ChromSword Offline Modelling

Experience your peaks’ elution times with Offline HPLC method development software by building computer-assisted simulations.

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Computer-assisted method development

What is computer-assisted simulation?

Possibility to simulate chromatographic conditions based on the existing chromatographic or structural data.

What kind of data can be used?

  • Use experimental data from your chromatographic experiments
  • Use structural formulae and column characteristics

What method variables can be simulated out of the chromatographic data?

  • Gradient profile (including different isocratic conditions)
  • pH influence on the separation
  • Temperature effect
  • Combination of several parameters mentioned above
Workflow with ChromSword Offline
ChromSword Offline data input and modelling workflow screens

A clear workflow from data to model

Data input is simple

  1. Choose the data to input
  2. Use the data
  3. Select the optimization model

Model concentration before the run

Optimize gradient

ChromSword has the unique linear and multi-step optimization of gradient methods using a super-fast Monte-Carlo method.

Modelling of Solvent Concentration

Model ionizable compounds

Optimize temperature and pH

When the sample contains basic or acid compounds with ionizable chemical groups, pH and temperature are very effective parameters for optimizing the separation. ChromSword is capable to predict molecule retention behaviour based on input runs with variable temperature and pH. System supports polynomial peak retention behaviour models that determines molecule pKa values for a very precise separation profiles.

ChromSword Offline pH and temperature modelling results

Begin with molecular structure

Predictions based only on structural formula

The unique ChromSword approach lets the user to start the simulation without experimental data by inputting structural formulas of analytes and applying the Solvatic retention model:

ln k’ = a V2/3 + b ΔG + c

where V is the molecular volume of a solute, ΔG is the energy of interaction of a solute with water, a, b and c are the parameters which are determined by the characteristics of a reversed phase column in the eluent being used.

Molecular structures used by ChromSword Offline

A ChromSword-specific approach

This is a new concept and ChromSword’s unique software that supports it

With this approach, you work more precisely and rapidly than that based on formal linear and quadratic polynomial models but it requires that both the parameters of the solutes (volume and energy of interaction with water) and the characteristics of the reversed-phase column under experimental conditions be known.

HPLCMD subscription access

ChromSword Offline subscriptions are available through HPLCMD.

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