Chromatography Forum

We live in the San Jose, Cupertino area in California.

I wanted to find a Lab or University where my high school kid can go to to use their Gas Chromatography/Chiral Columns for his experiment.
If they don't allow students to come work at their facility - we can submit the samples to them for the analysis.

Can anyone help us find a place that does that?

Thanks

Perhaps you would get more suggestions if you included some details of what your son would like to analyze his samples for. GC is a wonderfully flexible technology that can be set up in many different ways and used to measure many, many different analytes.

Back when mastodons walked the earth and I went to various universities, the senior (or maybe junior) level chemistry students took an analytical chemistry course that included a special project. That sort of special project is likely to be your easiest path.
Assuming such things still occurr and you could find a college and professor that has such a course, they may be interested in connecting a student with your high school student. It would have to be well organized and fit into the time constraints of their quarter or semester. Access to a GC with chiral columns could be the hardest part.

He's looking for a GC that can handle a chiral column. He's trying to predict how the two peaks of drug enantiomers will vary with temperature based on experiments he conducted at his school where he formed host-guest complexes with these enantiomers and cyclodextrins. Ideally, the stationary phase in the column would be a cyclodextrin-based phase.

Hopefully this helps!