傅里叶变换红外光谱新技术与新发展

傅里叶变换红外光谱联用技术 气相色谱(GC)与液相色谱(LC)是分离复杂混合物的有效方法,但仅靠保留指数定性分析未知物或未知组分始终存在着许多困难。而傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)作为重要的结构测定手段,能提供许多色谱难以得到的结构信息,但它要求所分析的样品尽可能简单、纯净,而不能是复杂的混合物。因此,将色谱技术的优良分离能力与红外光谱技术独特的结构鉴别能力相结合,即两种方法的联用就可以达到取长补短的效果,无疑是一种具有很高实用价值的分离鉴别手段。例如GC/FTIR联用技     

玻璃芯毛细管柱的研制

介绍了含玻璃内芯的新型毛细管色谱柱的制备方法,以正癸烷和正庚烷为测试物,测定了这种柱子的柱效率和柱容量,并与普通玻璃毛细管柱进行了比较。结果表明,所制玻璃芯毛细管柱的柱效率和柱容量均优于普通毛细管柱。用玻璃芯毛细管柱及使用这种柱子的GC/FTIR联用系统分别分析了烷芳烃混合物和合成汽油样品,取得了满意的结果。     

多种气相色谱联用技术分析陕西刺五加茎挥发油的化学成分

采用气相色谱/四极杆质谱(GC/qMS)、气相色谱/正交加速飞行时间质谱(GC/oaTOFMS)和气相色谱/傅里叶变换红外光谱(GC/FTIR)联用技术,对一种陕西产刺五加Acanthopanax senticosus (Rupr. et Maxim.) Harms茎挥发油的化学成分进行了分析。基于GC/qMS谱库的检索功能,结合GC/FTIR在结构鉴别上的优势和GC/oaTOFMS对质谱碎片离子精确的质量测定功能,成功地实现了对68个色谱组分的定性分析。与使用单一的联用技术(例如GC/qMS)相比,利用多种色谱联用技术在定性分析上的互补性,可以明显提高对组成复杂的挥发油类样品分析的可靠性。     

用吸光度减技术鉴定GC/FTIR中的重叠色谱峰

气相色谱/付里叶变换红外光谱联用(GC/FTIR)是分析复杂有机化合物的一种有效方法。这一方法的原理很简单。气相色谱柱流出物通过放置在FTIR仪器光路中的可加热光管,仪器实时记录下各流出物的红外光谱。 实际应用中,常常碰到非常复杂的样品,很难在一根色谱柱上把所有组分完全分离。这样,对于在色谱柱上保留行为近似的各组分,就很难得到纯化合物的光谱,增加了解析红外光谱的难度,自动检索也往往得不到正确的结果。     

多环芳烃的在线毛细管超临界流体色谱／傅里叶变换红外光谱联用分析方法

建立了一种毛细管柱超临界流体色谱/傅里叶变换红外光谱联用方法。成功地实现了对多环芳烃混合物的分析鉴定。该联用方法是在线分析鉴定复杂有机混合物的有效手段之一。     

多环芳烃的在线毛细管超临界流体色谱／傅里叶变换红外光谱联用分析方法

 ］建立了一种毛细管柱超临界流体色谱／傅里叶变换红外光谱联用方法。成功地实现了对多环芳烃混合物的分析鉴定。该联用方法是在线分析鉴定复杂有机混合物的有效手段之一。     

SFC/FTIR联用技术

介绍了超临界流体色谱与傅里叶变换红外光谱联用技术(SFC/FTIR)的检测原理、方法特点、应用实例和近期发展情况。对比和讨论了高压流通池和溶剂去除接口的性能和特点。并介绍了两种由GC/FTIR发展而来的新型冷捕集型接口:基体隔离接口(MI)和直接析出接口(DD)。     

居里点裂解毛细管色谱与傅里叶变换红外光谱联用鉴定聚丁二烯裂解产物

裂解色谱法(PY—GC)分析聚合物已得到广泛的应用。为了更好地鉴定研究聚合物的裂解产物,近年来开始使用裂解色谱与质谱联用(PY—GC/MS)。然而,裂解毛细管色谱与傅里叶红外光谱联用(PY—GC/FT—IR)鉴定裂解产物却很少见报道。本文采用PY—GC/FT—IR系统,鉴定了聚丁二烯(PBD)的裂解产物。实验表明:该方     

倍硫磷的气相色谱/红外光谱检测

倍硫磷是我国常用农药品种，也是是 口大米的必检项目之一。本文应用气相色谱／红外光谱联用方法，探索了倍硫磷的最佳色谱条件，获得其气以谱／红外光谱图，并依靠已有的气相红外谱库进行了检索，拟建立倍硫磷的气相色谱／红外谱库，以用于农产品中该农药的GC／FTIR监控。     

大体积进样技术在环境分析中的应用

在毛细管气相色谱法(CGC)中,采用大体积进样技术(LVI),即使用能够容纳大体积样品的进样装置以及增加可控时间的溶剂蒸汽放空装置,可以满足环境样品中超痕量组分的分析要求,简化样品浓缩步骤以及实现液相色谱(LC)与CGC的在线联用。针对分析物的性质、毛细管柱的规格和分析的目的已发展了多种LVI。本文总结了几种常见的LVI,包括柱头进样(OCI)和程序升温进样(PTV),以及近年来发展的一些新技术,如在柱同时溶剂浓缩进样、样品直接引入进样/复杂基质进样和同时溶剂冷凝无分流进样,阐述了各种进样技术的基本原理及其与样品提取、LC纯化在线联用的方法在环境分析应用中的一些最新研究进展。     

Construction and application of a cold on-column injection system for capillary gas chromatography

A cold on-column injection system for capillary gas chromatography (GC) applications was constructed. It was based upon a conventional split/splitless capillary GC inlet, which in turn was a modification of a conventional packed GC column inlet. The heart of the laboratory constructed cold on-column inlet design was a disposable pyrex micro-sampling pipet, which functioned as a needle guide for sample injection. The sample was injected through a traditional GC septum. Construction of the injection system is described and applications are illustrated by separations of a variety of complex mixtures.     

Comparison of two-stage retention index monitoring capillary gas chromatography and selected ion monitoring capillary gas chromatography – mass spectrometry as analytical tools

Two-stage capillary GC with two-stage retention index monitoring is an efficient analytical technique which can be used for detection and determination of small amounts of volatile compounds in complex mixtures of hundreds or thousands of other compounds. The system employs two capillary columns, coated with different stationary phases, connected on-line with the aid of a micro valve; the first column acts as a pre-separating unit from which unresolved fractions of interest are cut (transferred) into another column for final, interference-free separation of the compounds to be determined. This technique has been compared with selected ion monitoring capillary GC-MS using a hydrocarbon mixture as a test sample for comparing resolution, repeatability, and the practical usefulness of the techniques. Results indicate that two-stage capillary GC is very useful for mixtures containing compounds which produce mostly non-specific ions in the MS ion source whereas compounds producing specific ions can be easily analyzed by capillary GC – single ion monitoring MS even if they are not perfectly separated by a single capillary column.     

Separation characteristics of fatty acid methyl esters using SLB-IL111, a new ionic liquid coated capillary gas chromatographic column

The ionic liquid SLB-IL111 column, available from Supelco Inc., is a novel fused capillary gas chromatography (GC) column capable of providing enhanced separations of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) compared to the highly polar cyanopropyl siloxane columns currently recommended for the separation of cis- and trans isomers of fatty acids (FAs), and marketed as SP-2560 and CP-Sil 88. The SLB-IL111 column was operated isothermal at 168°C, with hydrogen as carrier gas at 1.0 mL/min, and the elution profile was characterized using authentic GC standards and synthetic mono-unsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) isomers as test mixtures. The SLB-IL111 column provided an improved separation of cis- and trans-18:1 and cis/trans CLA isomers. This is the first direct GC separation of c9,t11- from t7,c9-CLA, and t15-18:1 from c9-18:1, both of which previously required complimentary techniques for their analysis using cyanopropyl siloxane columns. The SLB-IL111 column also provided partial resolution of t13/t14-18:1, c8- from c6/c7-18:1, and for several t,t-CLA isomer pairs. This column also provided elution profiles of the geometric and positional isomers of the 16:1, 20:1 and 18:3 FAMEs that were complementary to those obtained using the cyanopropyl siloxane columns. However, on the SLB-IL111 column the saturated FAs eluted between the cis- and trans MUFAs unlike cyanopropyl siloxane columns that gave a clear separation of most saturated FAs. These differences in elution pattern can be exploited to obtain a more complete analysis of complex lipid mixtures present in ruminant fats.     

Characterization of high performance glass capillary gas chromatography

Summary High resolution gas chromatography requires the highest performance characteristics of gas chromatographic systems in terms of sampling and sample handling in strumentation, columns, and data handling. This paoper describes high precision computer measurements for characterizing capillary column efficiencies which are within 75% of the theoretical limit of capillary GC. Particular emphasis is given to detailed peak shape analysis, measurement accuracy and reproducibility, and system stability. Using known instrument performance parameters, it is then possible to characterize column performance with high accuracy in a meaningful manner. It is proposed that wall-coated tubular columns be characterized in terms of their chromatographic performance by the following parameters: Trennzahl (separation number), number of theoretical plates/meter, program temperature beseline stability, acid-base ratio, and the coefficient of skewness for 1-octanol. Statistical moments (m2) and hybrid moments are used to describe capillary column chromatographic performance because they may be related to basic physico-chemical column processes. These measurements are very sensitive parameters for characterizing GC columns. Using an online computer-based data system, the limits of capillary GC are shown to be limited by the sampling and injection steps.     

Stimultaneous quantitative analysis using dual capillary columns of different polarities

Complex organic mixtures, such as coal liquefaction and oil shale products and by-products, are comprised of hundreds or thousands of individual components. State-of-the-art high resolution gas chromatography does not always provide sufficient resolution to allow accurate quantitation or identification of many compounds of interest. The concept of dual capillary column chromatography combines the different resolving characteristics of two capillary columns coated with different stationary phases into a single chromatographic run. In this approach, both columns are connected to the same injection port. Analysis of complex mixtures in this fashion can confirm the identification and quantitation of components on two columns of different polarity with little increased analysis time, can provide a means of obtaining quantitative data for individual components which are known to coelute on any one column, and can alert one to unknown coelution problems that would be undetected by gas chromatographic analysis on a single capillary column. Simultaneous dual column analysis was applied to three samples, the neutral polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) fraction of a Solvent Refined Coal-II (SRC-II) heavy distillate, the nitrogen-containing polycyclic aromatic compound (N-PAC) fraction of an SRC-II heavy distillate, and the basic fraction from a shale oil process water. Fused silica capillary columns coated with SE-54 and Durawax 3 were used for the analyses of the heavy distillate, while SE-54 an Carbowax 20M capillary columns were used for the analysis of the process water.     

The effect of column characteristics on the minimum analyte concentration and the minimum detectable amount in capillary gas chromatography

The need for faster and more efficient separations of complex mixtures of organic compounds by gas chromatography has led to the development of small inner diameter open tubular columns. Owing to their decreased plate height, extremely narrow peaks are obtained. When differently sized columns with equal plate numbers are compared, injection of a fixed amount of a solute will give the highest detector signals for the smallest bore columns. When P is defined as the ratio of the column inlet and outlet pressures, it can be seen from theory that under normalized chromatographic conditions the minimum detectable amount (Q_º) for a mass flow sensitive detector increases proportionally to the square of the column diameter for P = 1. In the situation of greater interest in the practice of open tubular gas chromatography where P is large, a linear relationship is derived between Q_º and the column diameter. It is a widespread misunderstanding, however, that narrow bore capillary columns should be used for this reason in trace analysis. If a fixed relative contribution of the injection band width to the overall peak variance is allowed, a decreased plate height drastically restricts the maximum sample volume to be injected. It is shown that the minimum analyte concentration in the injected sample (C_º) is inversely proportional to the column inner diameter when a mass flow sensitive detector is used. For actual concentrations less than C_º, sample preconcentration is required. The effect of peak resolution and selectivity of the stationary phase in relation to C_º and Q_º will be discussed as well. The validity of the given theory is experimentally investigated. Minimum analyte concentrations and minimum detectable amounts are compared using columns with different inner diameter.     

High-speed gas chromatography: an overview of various concepts.

An overview is given of existing methods to minimise the analysis time in gas chromatography (GC) being the subject of many publications in the scientific literature. Packed and (multi-) capillary columns are compared with respect to their deployment in fast GC. It is assumed that the contribution of the stationary phase to peak broadening can be neglected (low liquid phase loading and thin film columns, respectively). The treatment is based on the minimisation of the analysis time required on both column types for the resolution of a critical pair of solutes (resolution normalised conditions). Theoretical relationships are given, describing analysis time and the related pressure drop. The equations are expressed in reduced parameters, making a comparison of column types considerably simpler than with the conventional equations. Reduction of the characteristic diameter, being the inside column diameter for open tubular columns and the particle size for packed columns, is the best approach to increase the separation speed in gas chromatography. Extremely fast analysis is only possible when the required number of plates to separate a critical pair of solutes is relatively low. Reducing the analysis time by reduction of the characteristic diameter is accompanied by a proportionally higher required inlet pressure. Due to the high resistance of flow of packed columns this seriously limits the use of packed columns for fast GC. For fast GC hydrogen has to be used as carrier gas and in some situations vacuum-outlet operation of capillary columns allows a further minimisation of the analysis time. For fast GC the columns should be operated near the conditions for minimum plate height. Linear temperature programmed fast GC requires high column temperature programming rates. Reduction of the characteristic diameter affects the sample capacity of the "fast columns". This effect is very pronounced for narrow-bore columns and in principle non-existing in packed columns. Multi-capillary columns (a parallel configuration of some 900 narrow-bore capillaries) take an intermediate position.     

Use of small diameter WCOT columns for ultra-high resolution GC/MS

For clinical and environmental analyses utilizing capillary gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), increased sensitivity and speed of analysis are highly desirable. These performance advantages are realized using a WCOT column of 100 μm i.d. as compared to the more conventional 200 μm i.d. capillary columns. The improved sensitivity of capillary direct GC/MS with the 100 μm i.d. column for the confirmation of drugs of abuse will be demonstrated. For environmental analysis, the superior efficiency and resolution of the 100 μm i.d. column can be employed for the separation of priority pollutants. This approach is more amenable to capillary direct GC/MS providing a more effective interface to the mass spectrometer. As a result improved sensitivity and a considerable decrease in analysis time is achieved over that obtained with the larger diameter environmental specialty phase columns.     

Fast Capillary Gas Chromatography: Comparison of Different Approaches

Savings in analysis time in capillary GC have always been an important issue for chromatographers since the introduction of capillary columns by Golay in 1958. In laboratories where gas chromatographic techniques are routinely applied as an analytical technique, every reduction of analysis time, without significant loss of resolution, can be translated into a higher sample throughput and hence reduce the laboratory operating costs. In this contribution, three different approaches for obtaining fast GC separations are investigated. First, a narrow-bore column is used under conventional GC operating conditions. Secondly, the same narrow-bore column is used under typical fast GC conditions. Here, a high oven temperature programming rate is used. The third approach uses a recent new development in GC instrumentation: Flash-2D-GC. Here the column is placed inside a metal tube, which is resistively heated. With this system, a temperature programming rate of 100°/s is possible. The results obtained with each of these three approaches are compared with results obtained on a column with conventional dimensions. This comparison takes retention times as well as plate numbers and resolution into consideration.     

Compositional studies of high-temperature coal tar by GC/FTIR analysis of light oil fractions

Summary A method for determination of the composition of the light oil fractions in high-temperature coal tar by means of distillation, followed by gas chromatography on a crosslinked fused-silica, capillary column coated with optimum amount of stationary phase and identification by capillary gas chromatography/Fourier transform infrared spectrometry combined with GC retention indices (GC/FTIR-RI) is described. This method was effectively used to identify complex mixture such as coal tar without any standard samples, especially, adapted for isomeric compounds. More than 60 and 50 compounds were also separated and identified respectively in light oil fractions. This shows the capability of the capillary GC/FTIR combined with GC retention indices to identify isomers not accomplished by GC/MS.