MAI-Alchemy turns VUV chromatography into molecular structure — identity, physical properties, and 3D spectral views from the detector you already own.
Detailed Hydrocarbon Analysis normally means a 100-meter column and a multi-hour run. With MAI-Alchemy, you get full speciation from the detector you already have.
Time × wavelength × absorbance. Coelutions, shoulders and spectral shifts that hide in a 2D trace become obvious.
Multi-axis matching resolves look-alikes a single cosine score calls 99.9% identical — by physics, not pattern-matching.
Boiling point, retention index, response factor and density — computed straight from the spectrum. No calibration run.
Every wavelength, every retention time, in one Stark surface — the structure of the entire run at a glance.
A guided walk-through of the workspace: pick a standard, then explore Stark View, 3D peaks, hover-to-discover spectra, and the multi-axis matching engine.
Most analytical software was never built for how chemists actually work — so we export to Excel to process the data "right." MAI-Alchemy is the tool I always wished I had, designed by an analytical chemist — processing the data the way the chemistry demands.
I've spent 33 years in analytical laboratories — refining, petrochemical, polymer, and specialty chemical — hands-on the whole way. At ExxonMobil's BTEC research facility I ran the analytical lab for the CODY project, developed the GC method that quantitated cyclohexylbenzene hydroperoxide, and was the first to crystallize it at 95% purity. I later developed methods on HPLC-SEC that ExxonMobil retained as a trade secret — work recognized with two global innovation awards.
I gravitate toward being first. Along the way I became one of the few people to genuinely master the VUV LUMA detector — the most information-rich, and least understood, VUV detector on the market. At Citgo I consolidated five complex GC analyses into a single LUMA method. But the data had nowhere good to go: every analyst I knew was exporting to Excel to process it "right."
So I built MAI-Alchemy — the analytical software I always wished I had. It creates the first spectral library for the LUMA detector, calculates physical properties beyond DHA, and lets any GC + VUV setup see the molecule, not just the peak. Medrado Analytical Innovations, LLC is where that work lives now.
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