By Eleanor Sobey on Sunday, May 5, 2002 - 10:57 am:
Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone would be able to suggest a useful chromatographic method that, combined with one-two spectroscopic methods (eg. IR, UV, MS, NMR) would be able to detect microgram quantities of the compound:
3-dimethyl-1-phenyl-2-butanone (C6H5CH2COCCH3CH3CH3)?
As this is fairly urgent, an immediate response would be very much appreciated.
Thankyou,
Eleanor
By bill tindall on Sunday, May 5, 2002 - 06:12 pm:
We will need more information. A concentration would be more useful. It will be a lot easier to detect micrograms per milliliter than micrograms per truck full. What is the nature of the sample? if the concentration is in the range of ppb to ppm this should be an easy problem by gc or lc if the sample isn't complex or gunky. This compound will have a decent extinction coefficient enableing sensitive detection by UV and it will have a nice mass spectra that will enable sensitive detection easily at ppb level by GC/MS.
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