Practical Gas Chromatography: A Comprehensive Reference

✍ Scribed by Katja Dettmer-Wilde, Werner Engewald (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 904
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gas chromatography continues to be one of the most widely used analytical techniques, since its applications today expand into fields such as biomarker research or metabolomics. This new practical textbook enables the reader to make full use of gas chromatography. Essential fundamentals and their implications for the practical work at the instrument are provided, as well as details on the instrumentation such as inlet systems, columns and detectors. Specialized techniques from all aspects of GC are introduced ranging from sample preparation, solvent-free injection techniques, and pyrolysis GC, to separation including fast GC and comprehensive GCxGC and finally detection, such as GC-MS and element-specific detection. Various fields of application such as enantiomer, food, flavor and fragrance analysis, physicochemical measurements, forensic toxicology, and clinical analysis are discussed as well as cutting-edge application in metabolomics is covered.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-20
Theory of Gas Chromatography....Pages 21-57
Columns and Stationary Phases....Pages 59-116
Selection of Capillary Columns and Operating Conditions....Pages 117-160
Inlet Systems and Sample Introduction....Pages 161-203
Detectors....Pages 205-248
Qualitative Analysis....Pages 249-269
Quantitative Analysis....Pages 271-302
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry....Pages 303-350
Element-Specific Detection....Pages 351-370
Solvent-Free Extraction and Injection Techniques....Pages 371-412
Shortening Analysis Time (Fast GC)....Pages 413-459
Multidimensional and Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography....Pages 461-502
QA/QC in Gas Chromatography....Pages 503-526
Front Matter....Pages 527-527
The Analytical Separation of Enantiomers by Gas Chromatography on Chiral Stationary Phases....Pages 529-575
Sample Preparation Techniques for GC....Pages 577-602
Derivatization....Pages 603-632
Analysis of Gases and Low Boiling Point Samples Using Highly Retentive Stationary Phases....Pages 633-693
Clinical Applications....Pages 695-716
Gas Chromatography in the Analysis of Flavours and Fragrances....Pages 717-743
Front Matter....Pages 527-527
Gas Chromatography in Food Analysis....Pages 745-766
GC in Forensic Toxicology....Pages 767-782
Gas Chromatography Coupled to Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomics Research....Pages 783-797
Physicochemical Measurements....Pages 799-827
Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography....Pages 829-847
Back Matter....Pages 849-902

✦ Subjects

Chromatography; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis