Discussion of thermodynamic data obtained by adsorption gas chromatography of hydrocarbons on carbograph 4

Summary A new graphitized carbon black, Carbograph 4, with a specific surface area of 240 m² g⁻¹ was studied in terms of enthalpy, entropy and free energy of adsorption, determined by gas chromatographic method on a series of alkanes (C₂−C₆) and on benzene. The changes in the isosteric heat and entropy of adsorption when a non-polar stationary phase (squalane) was added to the adsorbent were also investigated. The data obtained are discussed and compared to those present in the literature for other graphitized carbon blacks. Some examples of separations obtained with Carbograph 4 are reported.     

Discussion of thermodynamic data obtained by adsorption gas chromatography of hydrocarbons on a new graphitized carbon black with a high specific surface area

Summary A new graphitized carbon black (Carbograph 5) with a specific surface area (560 m² g⁻¹) greater than those of commerically available graphitized carbons was studied by gas chromatography to determine the enthalpy, entropy, and free energy of adsorption of a series of alkanes (C₂−C₆). The adsorption properties were also investigated by considering changes in the isosteric heats and entropies of adsorption when a nonpolar stationary phase (squalane) was added to the adsorbent. The data obtained are discussed and compared with literature values for other graphitized carbon blacks.     

Measurement of thermodynamic equilibria by chromatography

Summary After a brief recall of the chromatographic principles, the different applications of gas chromatographic measurements of thermodynamic equilibria were reviewed. Gas and liquid chromatographies are now well known and elegant methods for measuring the physicochemical properties and phase equilibrium thermodynamic constants. Although fundamentally a dynamical method and mostly known as a powerful separation technique, chromatography can be schematized by a sucession of equilbria of a chemical species partitioning between a mobile phase and a fixed liquid or solid stationary phase. It can be operated in either infinite dilution or finite concentration conditions and permits to collect a large number of data for calculating molecular interactions for solutes which are either rare or available at the trace level. Gas chromatography permits the measurement of gas adsorption isotherm, gas-liquid equilibria, molecular diffusion and interaction virials. The modelization of successive partition equuilibria occuring in the chromatographic column leads to rather simple expression of differential enthalpy, entropy, free energy of adsorption or solution, variation of heat capacity, complexation constant, second virial coefficients, gas-solid and gasliquid isotherm and also binary or ternary equilibria. The possibilities of High Performance-Liquid Chromatography to investigate adsorption from solutions and chemical equilibria are also discussed.     

A thermodynamic criterion for the identification of the functional group of aliphatic compounds by gas chromatography

Summary A thermodynamic criterion, Q, is suggested which permits to estimate the difference in the functional group energy of interactions for two different stationary phases. The linear dependence of Q on the homolog number m of any series R_m X can be used as the thermodynamic criterion for the identification of substances by GC analysis.Enlarged text of the paper presented at the Fourth Danube Symposium on Chromatography, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, September 1983.     

Chromatographic determination of the thermodynamic adsorption characteristics of saturated tricyclic hydrocarbon isomers using capillary columns with graphitized carbon black

Summary Due to their high efficiency capillary columns packed with graphitized thermal carbon black (GTCB) permit to realize high selectivity in the chromatographic separation of isomers on the flat surface of this adsorbent. However, the increase in the efficiency is connected to a considerable increase of the pressure drop across the column which hinders the determination of the thermo-dynamic adsorption characteristics. The optimum conditions for the preparation of such columns designed both for analytical purposes and for thermodynamic measurements of the individual isomers have been established. The retention volumes for small (zero) sample size (Henry constants for adsorption on GTCB) of six isomers of tricyclo(8,4,0,0^2,7)tetradecane (perhydrophenanthrene), seven isomers of tricyclo-(7,4,0,0^2,6)tridecane (1,2-cyclopentanodecalin) and six isomers of tricyclo(7,3,0,0^2,6)dodecane have been determined. The Henry constants increase with the flattening of the isomeric molecules in these hydrocarbon series. A qualitative procedure of identification of the isomers on the basis of optimum orientation of their molecules on a flat surface has been considered.     

Fast determination of VOCs in workplace air by solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

Summary A fast, simple, and reliable method is presented for the determination of atmospheric semi-volatile organic pollutants at μg m⁻³ levels. The method has been used to monitor potentially carcinogenic toxic compounds to which workers are exposed in workplaces, and to measure the same compounds in outdoor air. Dedicated to Michele Di Pasquale (deceased).     

Considerations for the automated collection of thermodynamic data in gas chromatography

Thermodynamic modeling of retention times in gas chromatography depends on the accurate estimation of thermodynamic parameters. Previous research has used manual injections of samples with coinjection of a dead time marker to obtain accurate measurements of the retention factor of analytes. Ideally this process would be automated. Herein an approach is presented by which thermodynamic parameters can be estimated both autonomously and accurately. This method also allows for a consistent estimation of thermodynamic parameters regardless of factors such as data system delays and the nature of the void time marker employed. Ignoring these factors can lead to significant errors in the prediction of retention times when using thermodynamic models.     

A thermodynamic approach to understanding liquid crystal selectivity in gas chromatography

Summary The thermodynamics of four new liquid crystals were investigated in order to understand their selectivity as stationary phases in gas chromatography. In this case study, liquid crystals with a benzoyloxy azobenzene mesogenic core substituted with heptyloxy (C7) and/or dioxyethylene ether (DOE) groups, were used. The chromatographic separations of linalool and citronellal, and of xylene, tetraethylbenzene and cresol isomers, which were achieved with the liquid crystal stationary phases, have been related to the dissolution thermodynamics of the solutes. The results gave us an insight into the mechanism of the molecular recognition involved in the separation processes.     

Investigation of thermodynamic properties of hyperbranched aliphatic polyesters by inverse gas chromatography

Thermodynamic properties of a series of commercial hyperbranched aliphatic polyesters (Boltorn^® H20, H30 and H40) were examined for the first time by inverse gas chromatography (IGC) using 13 different solvents at infinite dilution as probes. Retention data of probes were utilized for an extensive characterization of polymers, which includes the determination of the Flory–Huggins interaction parameter, the weight fraction activity coefficient as well as the total and partial solubility parameters. Analysis of the results indicated that the total and partial solubility parameters decrease with increase of temperature. Furthermore, upon increase of the molecular weight, while the hydrogen bonding component decreases, no influence on the total solubility parameter is noticed within the experimental error margins. Results from the present study while providing new insight to the thermodynamic characteristics of the examined systems, they are also expected to reflect more general aspects of the behavior of hyperbranched polymers bearing similar end-groups.     

Enantiomer separation of side-chain fluorinated alkylbenzenes by capillary gas chromatography on cyclodextrin phases

Summary The separation of racemic side-chain fluorinated alkylbenzenes and bromofluorinated analogues by capillary gas chromatography using permethylated , and -cyclodextrins dissolved in polysiloxanes of different polarity as stationary phases is described. The influence of the achiral polysiloxane matrices on the separation of enantiomers is discussed in the light of the results obtained with the different phases. For a part of the tested compounds thermodynamic data are determined which describe the interaction of enantiomers with the stationary phase. The mechanism of separation is discussed on this basis and by comparison with data for structurally similar compounds.     

Time separation of adsorption sites on heterogeneous surfaces by inverse gas chromatography

Summary The measurement of local (homogeneous) adsorption energiesε _i , local monolayer capacities,c _max ^* , local adsorption isotherms,θ _i (p, T, ε), and probability density functions for adsorption, f(ε) and ϕ(ε,t), can be used to study the mechanism of adsorption of five gaseous hydrocarbons on the heterogeneous surface of magnesium oxide. The method does not use analytical or numerical solutions of a classical integral equation comprisingf(ε) as unknown, but it depends on a time function of gas chromatographic peaks obtained by short flow-reversals of the carrier gas. The results for adsorption of ethane, ethylene, acetylene, propene, and l-butene on MgO, in the absence and presence of O₃ are given and discussed on the basis of a mechanism proposed earlier for argon on titatium dioxide.     

How to count strong adsorption sites by gas chromatography?

Summary A simple gas chromatographic method is presented for the determination of the quantity of the strongest adsorption sites on an adsorbent's surface. The method consists of the blockage of the sites with quasi-irreversibly adsorbed, known amount of a strongly interacting compound and subsequent measuring of the retention of a hydrocarbon during the presence of the blocking compound in the column. Heterogeneity of chromatographic grade silicas is investigated with this method.     

Retention of diphenyls,terphenyls, phenylalkanes and fluorene on graphitized thermal carbon black

Summary This paper defines values of retention volumes for zero surface coverage (Henry's constant) at different temperatures, retention indices and variations of the internal energy (differential heats of adsorption) of diphenyl and its alkyl derivatives, terphenyls, diphenylmethane, triphenylmethane, diphenylethanes and fluorene on graphitized thermal carbon black (GTCB). Adsorption on GTCB takes place in accordance with the geometry of these molecules, the strongest adsorption being observed for para-terphenyl with least inhibited internal rotation of the molecule, while the weakest adsorption occurs for 2,6,2,6-tetramethyldiphenyl with the most inhibited internal rotation of the molecules. The flat molecules of fluorene are adsorbed on GTCB more readily than the nonflat molecules of diphenylmethane.     

Thermodynamic properties of solutions by gas chromatography using a liquid crytal compound 4,4-bis(heptyloxy)azoxybenzene as solvent

Summary Thermodynamic properties of 22 solutes at infinite dilution have been determined in the smectic, nematic and isotropic mesophases of 4,4-bis(heptyloxy)azoxybenzone. The thermodynamic properties are discussed in relation to the solute-solvent (liquid crystal) interactions as conditioned by the degree of order in the liquid crystal.     

Die Retention von Indan- und Inden-Kohlenwasserstoffen auf graphitiertem thermischen Ruß

Zusammenfassung Es werden die Werte der Retentionsvolumina, der Retentionsindices und andere thermodynamische Adsorptionscharakteristiken von zehn Indan- und Inden-Kohlenwasserstoffen mit 9–11 Kohlenstoffatomen auf graphitiertem thermischem Ruß (GTR) bestimmt. Es wurde festgestellt, daß auf GTR die Kohlenwasserstoffe der Inden-Reihe am stärksten adsorbiert werden und am schwächsten cis-Hydrandan, was mit den Besonderheiten der geometrischen Struktur dieser Verbindungen zusammenhängt. Es wird die Möglichkeit der Anwendung von GTR für die vollständige Trennung der cis- und trans-Isomeren von Hydrindan gezeigt.

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Retention of indan and indan-type hydrocarbons on graphitized thermal carbon black

Summary The retention volumes, retention indices and other thermodynamic values characteristic of the adsorption of ten indan-hydrocarbons having 9–11 carbon atoms were determined on graphitized thermal carbon black (GTCB). It is shown that GTCB adsorbs strongest the hydrocarbons of the indan series and weakest cis hydrindan. This is related to the peculiarities of the geometric structure of the compounds. The possibility of the application of GTCB for the complete separation of cis and trans hydrindan is shown.

     

Determination of adsorption by fluorescence in gas chromatography

PMBF₂, a pyrromethene pigment, can be used in gas chromatography. Because of its fluorescence, adsorption sites on glass columns and connections can be traced in situ. The compound can be employed to check the inertness of glass surfaces after deactivation procedures. Some applications are described.     

Extrapolation of isothermal retention data in gas chromatography for chiral recognition studies

Summary The calculation of capacity factors, k, from net retention times, t_R, and the corresponding dead times, t_M, at different temperatures suffers from the limited accuracy of the t_M values. If the temperature coefficient racy of the t_M values. If the temperature coefficient d ln k/d (1/T) only is required, it is sufficient to determine net retention times (t_R)_p at constant inlet pressure p_i for different temperatures, since the temperature dependence of (t_M)_p can be assumed as (t_M)_p=A·e^B/T, with B being approximately independent of the column inlet pressure and of the nature of the carrier gas. The extrapolation and interpolation of (t_R)_p may be either performed by linear regression or graphically with a nomogram for ln (t_R)_p versus 1/T. The resolution factor, , of two components, e.g. enantiomers which are resolved on a chiral stationary phase, can be treated in a similar way. Examples are given for the resolution of enantiomers of two non-proteinogenic amino acids on the new polysiloxane phase L-Chirasil-CPG.     

邻氨基苯腈气相色谱分析法的研究

采用邻苯二甲酸二壬酯为固定液,Chromsorb W/AW为载体的色谱柱和热导检测器,用苯乙腈为内标物,对邻氨基苯腈试样进行了分析,其中邻氨基苯腈的回收率为100.5%,试样浓度小于1%时测定的相对标准偏差小于8.6%。     

Evidence for coupling of torsional oscillations in alkane mixtures from thermodynamic data,obtained by means of gas chromatography

Data on the exchange-energy parameterX ₁₂ in the Flory theory have been obtained previously from gas-chromatographic measurements for a number of normal and branched alkanes dissolved in the branched-alkane solvent squalane. These data are analyzed in the light of recently proposed theoretical concepts. It is shown that coupling of torsional oscillations of the components of the solutions (a phenomenon pointed to by Patterson) has a large influence on the values ofX ₁₂, even in solutions of monomethyl-substituted alkanes. Analogous effects are observed in the molar volumes.