Analysis of flue-cured tobacco essential oil by hyphenated analytical techniques |
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| Authors: | B M Gordon M S Uhrig M F Borgerding H L Chung W M Coleman J F Elder J A Giles D S Moore C E Rix E L White |
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| Affiliation: | R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Bowman Gray Technical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27102. |
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| Abstract: | The major components of an alkaloid-free, flue-cured, tobacco essential oil sample are isolated and identified. This is accomplished by utilizing modern hyphenated analytical methods. The instrumentation developed to accomplish this are an automated multidimensional gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer/flame ionization detector (MDGC/MS/FID) and a multidimensional gas chromatograph/matrix isolation/Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (MDGC/MI/FTIR). A total of 306 compounds is identified in the essential oil, of which 80 are found as tobacco constituents for the first time. |
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