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Negative temperature programming using microwave open tubular gas chromatography
1Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0212, USA.
Abstract:
A microwave gas chromatography (GC) column oven is engineered to generate a uniform microwave field around an open tubular column with the elimination of cold spots, which are common in a domestic microwave oven. Short cool-down time in microwave heating makes it possible to employ negative temperature programming for the enhanced separation of compounds during the process. The feasibility of negative temperature programming in microwave GC is investigated for the analysis and quantitation of four different pairs of nonvolatile and volatile compounds. The influence of intermediate column cooling rate, holding time in the cooling ramp, and reheating rate after the cooling ramp for enhanced resolution are investigated. The results obtained from negative temperature programming are compared with those from positive temperature programming. Negative temperature programming affords greater resolution of some critical pairs of analytes.
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