Application Notes: GC-MS

Mesylate and besylate are potentially genotoxic impurities in pharmaceuticals. This app note introduces analysis of sulfonic acid esters utilizing Shimadzu's GCMS-QP.

Untargeted comparison of flavour profiles of popular brand soft drinks using immersive sorptive extraction, GCxGC–TOF-MS and chemometrics.

USP General Chapter <1469> ensures appropriate control of NSAs in drug products. This application replicates NSA determination in APIs using Shimadzu's GCMS-TQ8050 NX.

Application note shows how thermal desorption GC–MS is used to monitor the release of PFAS during the application of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF).

Demonstrating how commercially available TD equipment is used to monitor CF4 & other products of incomplete destruction (PIDs) resulting from PFAS removal technologies.

This study investigates the performance of a high-throughput automated thermal desorption instrument coupled to GC–MS/MS for PFAS analysis.

This application note utilises SCION's GC-MS to test for cannabinoids, providing method conditions and sample preparation techniques to validate methods.

Measuring PFAS pollution in ambient air with TD–GC–MS/MS at concentrations low as 2 pg/m3. Each of 19 targeted compounds had linear calibration with high repeatability.

This application note provides insights into how to monitor the different cannabis strains, and showcases how the Horwitz ration can be a useful tool in this analysis.

Passive sampling of plant volatiles using TF-SPME and GERSTEL Twister, respectively, is compared with active sampling onto PDMS foam- and TenaxTA-filled Tubes

Lipid oxidation generates off-odors in food, edible oils, and fats. DHS or Thermal Extraction-GC–MS/O using Sensory Directed Analysis quickly identifies off-odors

An analytical approach combined with PCA is compared to sensory-directed analysis (SDA) for differentiating honey from multi-floral, wildflower, and clover sources

Determination of flavors in smoothies using standard- and solvent-swollen Twister® stir bars, liquid desorption, and LVI-GC/MS for enhanced recovery of polar compounds

Smart Ramped Pyrolysis-GC–MS analysis of forensic samples such as paint, adhesive tape, and mascara gives maximum information in a single run without method development

This application note demonstrates how splitless micro-furnace pyrolysis increases the sensitivity of microplastic measurements.

Air quality measurement: Continuous, cryogen-free on-line monitoring of PAMS in ambient air using hydrogen carrier gas using EPA PAMS method.

Tube-based thermal desorption for monitoring chemical warfare agents Malathion, Russian VX and mustard gas at ultratrace levels without degradation or losses.

This app note describes automated, high-performance GC–MS analysis of humid 'air toxics' samples in canisters, using a cryogen-free system for preconcentration and TD.

This application note shows the robust, reproducible analysis of trace VOCs in hydrogen fuel by TD–GC–MS/SCD.

Using thermal desorption–GC–MS is to address multiple challenges in the detection of microplastics in different salt samples.

This study investigates the performance of a high-throughput automated thermal desorption instrument coupled to GC–MS/MS for PFAS analysis.

TD–GC–MS analysis of VOCs in air using H2 carrier gas meets all the performance criteria cited in US EPA Method TO-17, including linearity, reproducibility & MDLs.

Ambient air analysis and study of the new IONICON Fusion PTR-TOF, providing ultrahigh sensitivities up to 80 000 cps/ppbV, high mass resolving power and ppqV detection limit

Complex food & flavor headspace analysis with the new FUSION PTR-TOF 10k demonstrates benefits of high mass resolving power & extreme sensitivity for fast measurements.

Automated, high-sensitivity analysis of residual fumigants for food safety testing by multi-step enrichment–headspace–trap (MSE–HS–trap) with GC–MS.

The CDS 8500 Purge and Trap electronic pressure control (EPC) is used for automated preparation of calibration curves.

The CDS 8500 Purge and Trap system is used to perform automated sample dilution to prepare calibration curves.

This application note introduces a sample-stacking technique to improve sensitivity for low concentration polymer samples.