ACD/Column Selector

Compare and Contrast Chromatographic Columns

Don't have a referenced LC column on hand? ACD/Column Selector can help you to find the most equivalent ones. Need a column that is different from yours in a particular way? Column Selector can help with this as well. With Column Selector, you can take the guesswork out of column selection.

ACD/Column Selector is a column selection tool for Microsoft® Windows®, developed in collaboration with Mel Euerby (HiChrom) and Patrik Petersson (AstraZeneca). This software lets the chromatographer search a knowledge base of the most utilized columns in order to locate the ones that have the properties best suited to the separation at hand. Column Selector has 229 characterized columns in its database, the result of over 4800 systematic experiments.¹

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^1. Euerby, MR; Petersson, P. "Chromatographic classification and comparison of commercially available reversed-phase liquid chromatographic columns using principal component analysis." J. Chromatogr. A, 994: 13-36, 2003.

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ACD/Column Selector is a freeware application. It is available as a ChemBasic macro for freeware ChemSketch. To use Column Selector, you need to download and install ACD/ChemBasic.

Download ACD/ChemSketch Freeware, version 11.0.

Download ACD/Column Selector for Windows (including the User Guide), version 11.0.