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Published on: May 16, 2014
Analysis of flue-cured tobacco essential oil by hyphenated analytical techniques
B M Gordon1, M S Uhrig, M F Borgerding
1R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Bowman Gray Technical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27102.
Abstract:
The major components of an alkaloid-free, flue-cured, tobacco essential oil sample are isolated and identified. This is accomplished by utilizing modern hyphenated analytical methods. The instrumentation developed to accomplish this are an automated multidimensional gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer/flame ionization detector (MDGC/MS/FID) and a multidimensional gas chromatograph/matrix isolation/Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (MDGC/MI/FTIR). A total of 306 compounds is identified in the essential oil, of which 80 are found as tobacco constituents for the first time.
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