title: Gas chromatographic determination of primary alcohols as their formylbenzoic esters by gas-phase luminescence detection.
abstract: A new and convenient method is described for the derivatization of primary alcohols with p-formylbenzoyl chloride, and the sensitive photometric detection of the resulting formylbenzoic ester derivatives based on their gas-phase luminescence in excited nitrogen. The coupling reaction proceeds rapidly and quantitatively, and the formylbenzoic esters show good GC properties. The minimum detectable amounts of the derivatized alcohols, at a signal three-times the peak-to-peak noise, lie between 10 and 100 pg per injection, and their linear ranges cover approximately three-orders of magnitude.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
authors.forename: Z P
authors.initials: ZP
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Aue
mesh_terms: D000438:Alcohols / Q000032:analysis*; D001565:Benzoates / Q000737:chemistry*; D002849:Chromatography, Gas / Q000379:methods*; D004952:Esters; D008163:Luminescent Measurements
chemical_list: D000438:Alcohols; D001565:Benzoates; D004952:Esters