title: Heart-cutting multidimensional gas chromatography: a review of recent evolution, applications, and future prospects.
abstract: The present contribution is focused on the main advances made in the field of heart-cutting multidimensional gas chromatography (MDGC), over approximately the last decade. Brief details on the history of classical MDGC are also given. A series of applications, carried out with modern-day commercially available instrumentation are shown, demonstrating the usefulness of the bidimensional methodology in specific analytical situations. Finally, the future prospects of MDGC are considered, within the shadow projected by a very powerful GC technique, namely comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Farmaco-chimico, Facoltà di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy. ptranchida@unime.it
authors.forename: Peter Q
authors.initials: PQ
authors.lastname: Tranchida
authors.forename: Danilo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sciarrone
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dugo
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mondello
mesh_terms: D002849:Chromatography, Gas / Q000266:history / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010938:Plant Oils / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D010938:Plant Oils