Analysis of flue-cured tobacco essential oil by hyphenated analytical techniques.
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.
Gordon
B M
BM
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Bowman Gray Technical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27102.
Uhrig
M S
MS
Borgerding
M F
MF
Chung
H L
HL
Coleman
W M
WM
Elder
J F
JF
Giles
J A
JA
Moore
D S
DS
Rix
C E
CE
White
E L
EL
D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000032:analysis*; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D014026:Nicotiana / Q000032:analysis*
D009822:Oils, Volatile