- Widely recognized as one of the finest silicas ever created for chromatography
GL Sciences was the first company to emphasize the critical importance of silica-gel purity and silanol "speciation" ( e.g. optimizing isolated, vicinal, geminal, and siloxane ratios ) in creating a silica with optimal chromatographic properties.
Inertsil SIL-100A° represents, to this day in 2007, the best-of-the-best silica material available in the chromatography industry. It is the basis for the advanced Inertsil 3-Series (see below), and is available in 3, 5, and 8 micron particle size in column configurations ranging from capillary to 50mm ID preparative sizes for normal phase chromatography.
The Inertsil 3-series represents a major advance in performance over the original Inertsil 2-Series. Inertsil 3-Series phases, including ODS-3, ODS-3V, ODS-P, ODS-EP, C8-3, Ph-3, CN-3, NH2, Diol, and SIL-100A°, are based on a purer, higher surface area silica which is specially manufactured to provide maximum bonded phase coverage. The result is a series of columns which provide excellent peak shapes using simple eluents while operating at low pressure.
| Particle Size(s) | Particle Shape | Surface Area | Pore Size | Pore Volume | Silica Purity | Bonded Phase | End- Capping | Carbon Load | pH Range* |
| 3, 5, 8 µm | Spherical | 450 m2/g | 100Å | 1.05 mL/g | 99.999% | None | No | 0% | 2 - 7.5 |
