Fusion Reaction Gas Chromatography

Abstract

Abstract The conventional gas chromatograph is an efficient tool for separating mixtures of volatile compounds into their individual components for quantitative measurement and for preparative isolation of the components. Many compounds, however, are nonvolatile or lack sufficient volatility for gas chromatographic separation. These compounds may contain polar functional groups (i.e.r -COOH, -OH, -NO2 -NH2, etc.), which cause low volatility or poor chroma tographic behavior, or ionic groups (i.e., -SO3Na, R4NX-SO4Na, -WNCl, etc.), which are either completely nonvolatile or thermal unstable. Other compounds have too large molecular weights for conventional gas chromatographic separation.