title: Monitoring and confirming primary alkylamines via a simple derivatisation procedure.
abstract: Carbon disulphide reacts readily with primary alkylamines to yield dithiocarbamates. When injected into the heated injection port of a gas chromatograph, the dithiocarbamates yield the corresponding isothiocyanates. This reaction provides a simple and elegant derivatisation for quantifying, and also confirming the identify of, the primary alkylamines.
authors.affiliation: Occupational Health Laboratory, Ontario Ministry of Labour, Weston, Canada.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Gaind
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chai
mesh_terms: D000588:Amines / Q000032:analysis*; D002246:Carbon Disulfide; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D017879:Isothiocyanates; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D013861:Thiocyanates / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000588:Amines; D017879:Isothiocyanates; D013861:Thiocyanates; C037152:isothiocyanic acid; D002246:Carbon Disulfide