Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award

The 2025 winner of the award is Professor Daniel W. Armstrong from the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Armstrong has over 35 years of experience in the field of chiral recognition, enantiomeric separations and the biological relevance thereof.

Dr. Armstrong is being recognized for his fundamental studies and evolutionary approachs for stereochemical analysis, his development and characterization of ionic liquids for chemical investigations, microbiological separations and mechanistic studies in diverse areas of analytical chemistry.

Over 30 different HPLC and GC columns that were originally developed in his laboratories have been commercialized and/or copied worldwide. His work and columns were in part responsible for the chromatography and electrophoresis-lead revolution in chiral separations over the last three decades. His work, in part, provided the impetus for the FDA to pass its 1992 guidelines regarding the separation of stereoisomeric drugs. Currently, the columns, chiral selectors and techniques he developed are known throughout the world of analytical enantiomeric separations. He developed ultra-fast separations into its current advanced and practical state. He invented modern techniques of separation-based peak processing which has enhanced the speed, resolution as well as quantitative aspects of all separations.