Comparative Analysis of Lipophilic Wood Extractives by GCxGC-TOFMS for Enhanced Chromatographic Resolution and Compound Identification

Read this application note to learn about the enhanced detection and increased peak capacity available with GCxGC-TOFMS for complex lipophilic wood extractives. The comprehensive two-dimensional chromatography resolves analytes that would otherwise totally co-elute and be buried by high concentration analytes in one-dimensional chromatography. It further illustrates deconvolution of fast acquisition non-skewed time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) spectra for closely eluting analytes of similar chemical structure. Soxhlet extractions are compared using different solvents to maximize and isolate the detection of possible volatile components in wood by GCxGC-TOFMS.