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Odour evaluation, fraction collection and preparative scale separations with glass capillary columns

✍ Scribed by Sandra, P. ;Saeed, Talat ;Redant, G. ;Godefroot, M. ;Verstappe, M. ;Verzele, M.


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1980
Tongue
English
Weight
575 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0935-6304

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Abstract

A simple but effective GC approach to odour evaluation and fraction collection with capillary columns is described. An allglass device splits the column effluent, with one splitter arm going to an FID. For odour evaluation, the other splitter arm is led via teflon tubing to the nose. Off‐line heart‐cutting is carried out by collecting the split effluent on a glass capillary microtrap, the inner walls of which are coated with OV‐101. This allows recovery of nanogram amounts of material. Multipass operation or repeated collection leads to preparative capillary GC for further spectroscopic investigation. These techniques do not involve sophisticated equipment or valves. Applications of this type of smell analysis, heart‐cutting and enrichment in the analysis of Rhododendron fragrantissimum essential oil, black pepper essential oil and hop essential oil, illustrating the versatility of the systems, are presented.