New LC Offers Best-in-Class Specifications in All HPLC, UHPLC and LC/MS Categories

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduce the Agilent 1290 Infinity Liquid Chromatography System, designed to deliver significantly greater power, speed and sensitivity for enhanced performance in the high-end Ultra High
Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) market.

"The debate about UHPLC is over," said Patrick Kaltenbach, Agilent general manager, Liquid Chromatography Business. "We were very ambitious in setting the design criteria for this completely new system, to meet present day demands and also to serve future needs for higher throughput, sensitivity and resolution. When I listen to what our beta site customers tell us, I am very confident that we’ve succeeded." "The Agilent 1290 Infinity LC  enables separations in seconds, faster than any instrument before," said Daniel Zimmerli, senior technology coordinator at Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel, Switzerland. "Limits of detection for the pharmaceutical impurities were as low as 0.001% relative to the main compound using the new diode array detector," said Dr. Pat Sandra of the Research Institute for Chromatography in Belgium, another early access user. "This is more than one order of magnitude lower than required by U.S. FDA."