I have been looking for a while to replace the rather old-fashioned quantitative HPLC-DAD lab (separation of phenol and acetophenone) at Bishop’s University with a modern and relevant lab for students. So, I stumbled across a paper by Bidlingmeyer and Schmitz (1995), which describes an experiment for
The analysis of artificial sweeteners and additives in beverages by HPLC: An undergraduate experiment
which I have now adapted to a 4-hour lab for Chemistry students. Preliminary trials were successful and the first students will get a hands-on experience with a real life sample in early January!
