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Tran N Pham1, Caroline J Day, Andrew J Edwards
1Chemical Development, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG12NY, UK. tran.pham@gsk.com
Abstract:
We report a novel use of solid-state ¹⁹F nuclear magnetic resonance to detect and quantify polytetrafluoroethylene contamination from laboratory equipment, which due to low quantity (up to 1% w/w) and insolubility remained undetected by standard analytical techniques. Solid-state ¹⁹F NMR is shown to be highly sensitive to such fluoropolymers (detection limit 0.02% w/w), and is demonstrated as a useful analytical tool for structure elucidation of unknown solid materials.
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