Fast GC analysis with a 50 microm ID column: theory, practical aspects, and application to a highly complex sample

This research focuses on the minimization of GC analysis times through the use of a 5 m x 0.05 mm ID x 0.05 microm (film thickness) column. Experimental minimum plate height (Hmin) and optimum linear velocity values were derived from standard compound applications, under various analytical conditions, and then related to classical chromatographic theory. Deviations from the latter are measured and discussed. Practical aspects linked to the use of such capillaries, such as column sample capacity and detector acquisition rates, are also considered. Furthermore, a fast, and what can be considered a very fast method, were applied to the separation of a fuel sample. Coefficients of variation of elution times and relative peak areas were calculated in the very fast application. All analytical results are compared with those obtained by conventional 0.25 mm ID column applications.     

溶胶-凝胶柠檬酸三丁酯毛细管气相色谱柱的研究

柠檬酸三丁酯是浅黄色的液体,可作为固定相,文献记载它被制备成色谱柱的最高使用温度为150℃。鉴于最高使用温度低的限制,柠檬酸三丁酯作为色谱固定相时,一些分子量大的化合物不能使用该柱分析。本文将其作为固定相用溶胶-凝胶法制备毛细管气相色谱柱,并在色谱柱上初步研究了一系列低沸点有机物的分离和保留行为,发现其对醇类、胺类、芳烃等有很好的分离效果。同时使用该种方法制得的毛细管柱能承受的最高温度现为240℃,这对提高柠檬酸三丁酯的利用价值有较好的意义。     

纤维素酶前处理没药挥发油成分的GC/MS分析

采用水蒸汽蒸馏法分别从未处理和纤维素酶前处理的没药中提取挥发油,利用气相色谱-质谱(GC/MS)联用技术对其挥发油成分进行分析。从中分别鉴定出38种和34种化学成分,用峰面积归一法通过数据处理系统得出各化学成分在挥发油中的质量分数,占挥发油总成分的67.95%和70.05%。     

Distribution of weight,density, and molecular weight in crude oil derived from computerized capillary GC analysis

Chromatographic separation of crude oil components has been performed on a 50 m Chrompack Sil 5 fused silica capillary column, temperature programmed from 10 to 300°C. Approximately 70 peaks eluting before n-nonane (n-C₉) and all normal paraffins to n-C₁₉ were identified by a retention time table. Peak areas were converted to weight % using 1-heptene as internal standard and relative response factors. Components were divided into boiling range groups from n-C₆ to n-C₁₉. Paraffinic, naphthenic, and aromatic distributions were obtained for the boiling point fractions up to n-C₉. Group average densities and molecular weights were calculated from pure component properties up to n-C₉. Knowing the density and molecular weight as functions of boiling range group to n-C₉, these functions can be extrapolated to n-C₁₉, based on data and correlations from more than 20 distillations of paraffinic North Sea oils adn condensates. The densities and molecular weights of the C₁₀+ and the C₂₀+ residues were calculated to satisfy a balance of weight, volume, and number of moles for the whole sample. Measurements on the residues were used to cross-evaluate the GC method against distillation. The difference in weight was estimated to be less than ± 0.5% in absolute terms for the C₁₀+ residue. The corresponding figure for C₂₀+ was ± 2%. Relatively, calculated densities are within ± 1%, molecular weights within ± 2% compared to direct measurements. Calculations were performed by a BASIC program in a GC interfaced computer.     

Analysis of essential oil and perfume samples by a glass capillary coated with pluronic F68 stationary phase

Summary A high performance Pluronic F68 glass capillary column has been used successfully for the analysis of various essential oil samples, the comparison of a number of perfumes, fruit aroma concentrates and the routine quality control of incoming Bouquette essential oil batches. No deterioration in the separation characteristics of the column has been observed over a period of 18 months during which the column was temperature programmed up to 240°C.     

Preparation and characterization of fragrance by extracting the essential oils from different raw materials

The extraction is a simple process and it is widely used to extract the fragrances in fragrance industries from essential oils. There are number of compounds (i.e. flowers, oils, leaves etc.) from which we can prepare the fragrance by extracting the essential oils from them. In this work, we have prepared the fragrance from the essential oils by the liquid-liquid extraction process, where the essential oil presented as the concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds. We used the combination of Gas chromatography and Mass spectrometry (GC/MS) characterization techniques to make our product more useful, convenient and compitative with the other fragrance available in the market. This study would be helpful to understand the preparation of the fragrance from the concentrated hydrophobic liquid type essential oils which contains volatile aroma compounds by using a significant liquid-liquid extraction process.     

叶下花挥发油化学成分的GC/MS分析

叶下花(Ainsliaea pertyoidesFr.var.albo-tom en-tosaBeauverd)(又名白背兔耳风)为菊科帚菊木族兔耳风属药用植物。兔耳风属全世界70余种,我国有44种4变种,约占总数的37·5%。兔耳风属植物药用种类较多,广泛用于治疗感冒咳喘、风湿痹痛、跌打损伤、活血止血、肠炎痢疾、咽喉炎     

Distorted solvent peaks in capillary GC: A symptom of porous column surfaces

Many uncoated precolumns, and to a lesser extent separation columns, strongly retain some of the solvent. Retarded release of such solvent elevates the baseline after the solvent peak and causes ugly “humps” of eluted solvent as the temperature is increased. The problem is probably a result of retention by a porous surface, e.g. surfaces obtained by leaching or hydrothermal treatment of capillaries prior to silylation. It is assumed that other problems with capillary columns can be explained by the same mechanism, including: a kind of adsorption including apolar compounds, and “ghost” peaks as well as “memory” effects. Fused silica capillaries are superior to glass, but even for these special procedures are required in order to achieve thorough deactivation of the internal surface without introducing porosity.     

菥蓂籽挥发油的GC/MS分析

菥蓂(Thlaspi arvenseLinn),又名苏败草、遏蓝菜、苦苦菜、罗汉菜,属双子叶植物药十字花科一年生草本植物,我国大部分地区均有分布,在川西北草原储量较丰富[1]。它既是一种中药材,又是一种可食用野生资源和潜在的油料作物来源。其种子含黑芥子甙(Sinigrin)及34%左右的油脂,味辛     

Analysis of essential oils by direct sampling from plant secretory structures and capillary gas chromatography

It is of fundamental importance to know the true composition of the essential oil produced by the secretory structures of a plant, both from a biogenetic and a chemotaxonomic point of view. This paper considers a method which combines direct sampling with on-column CGC and studies the oils directly from the secretory structures: some examples are given (Humulus lupulus L., Tagetes erecta L., and Tagetes patula L.). For each plant, the composition of the distilled oil is compared to that obtained by direct sampling, and a photograph of the secretory structures taken by electroscanning microscopy is given.     

GC and GC/MS analyses of the Algerian Lantana camara leaf essential oil: Effect against Sitophilus granarius adults

The bioactivity of the essential oil extracted by hydrodistillation from Lantana camara leaves was assessed under laboratory conditions. The composition of L. camara essential oil included large amounts of sesquiterpene, mainly β-caryophyllene (35.70%) and caryophyllene oxide (10.04%). The tested essential oil showed good fumigant activity within 1 week of exposure for all tested doses. Moreover, remanence study confirmed that the oil was efficient during 2 weeks.     

A new type of two-dimensional packed+capillary column GC system. III. Instrumentation

Summary The constractional details of precolumns, its oven and connector have been given with two types of multiflow control modules. Two types of phases made in China, a silanized pellicular beads and a non silanized pellicular silica beads, with an optimum particle size of 20μm to 30μm were packed in the precolumn 20mm in length with the column efficiency of 4620 plates/meter at column temperature of 49°C. A 25m×0.22mm i.d. capillary column coated with bonded methylsilicone phase from Chrompack connected with the precolumn (250°C) has an efficiency of 5376 plates/meter for n-octane. But it decreased to 3149 plates/meter by decreasing the precolumn temperature to 130°C.     

Modification of a packed GC injector to a versatile capillary injector

A modification of a packed GC injector to a capillary injector is presented using a simple device which is connected to the GC column by an adsorption-free connector. It permits injections of large sample volumes up to 500 μl hexane solutions on normal 0.3 mm i.d. capillary columns. No special requirements for the stationary phase are necessary. Involatile residues remain inside the device which can be exchanged easily. High performance of separation and quantification is achieved.     

A study of the compositional variation of the essential oil of ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata Hook Fil. et Thomson,formagenuina) during flower development

Volatile secondary metabolites from Colombian ylang-ylang flowers were obtained by combined steam distillation - solvent extraction. The samples were analyzed by high resolution gas chromatography with flame ionization, nitrogen/phosphorus, or mass spectrometric detection. The chemical composition of the oils extracted from flowers at different stages of development differed both qualitatively and quantitatively. The generation of total volatile metabolites, light oxygenated compounds in particular, increased markedly during flower maturation. In this work the quality of the ylang-ylang essential oils was studied as a function of flower maturity.     

Some applications of multidimensional gas chromatography to the enrichment of minor components in essential oil analysis

The use of multidimensional gas chromatography (MDGC) for the analysis of essential oils is gaining in importance. A rarely used application consists in the enrichment of minor components through a MDGC system provided with a cold trap between trap column and analytical column. Under suitable conditions, in fact, the cold-trap can store a trapped compound (or a fraction) for a long time. Consequently, the same fraction can be heart-cut from several successive chromatographic runs on the first column and stored together in order to accumulate trace compounds; afterwards the accumulated fraction can be injected in the analytical column. The possibilities of this technique will illustrated through some examples of analysis of complex essential oils.     

A new type of two-dimensional packed + capillary column GC system. I. Theory

Summary To match the need of high efficiency capillary column (plate number N₂, Plate height H₂ and carrier gas linear velocity U₂), a new high efficiency packed column (N₁, H₁ and U₁) at high carrier gas velocity with small capacity factor has been developed in the light of theoretical discussion of factors effecting the column efficiency utilization ratio.     

Analysis of free and esterified sterols in vegetable oil methyl esters by capillary GC

The introduction of quality standards for vegetable oil methyl esters is gaining in importance due to their increased use as diesel fuel substitutes and as technical products. Free and esterified sterols, the main constituents of the unsaponifiable matter in vegetable oils, are recovered in vegetable oil methyl esters and may influence the technical properties of vegetable oil methyl ester products. A rapid gas chromatographic method for the qualitative and quantitative determination of free and esterified sterols in vegetable oil methyl esters has therefore been developed. The concentration of the free sterols as well as their qualitative and quantitative composition and the concentration of the sterol esters have been determined in rape seed oil methyl ester samples by GC–FID. Prior to analysis, the free sterols were silylated with N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide with 1% of trimethylchlorosilane; betulinol was used as an internal standard. Calibration was performed by analysis of standard solutions containing β-sitosterol, cholesteryl stearate, and betulinol. The reproducibility of the quantitative results has been evaluated by repeated injections of the same test solution and by repeated complete analysis of the same sample.