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Solid‐phase Microextraction of Insect Epicuticular Hydrocarbons for Gas Chromatographic/Mass Spectrometric Analysis
Author(s) -
Moneti Gloriano,
Dani Francesca R.,
Pieraccini Giuseppe,
Turillazzi Stefano
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
rapid communications in mass spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.528
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1097-0231
pISSN - 0951-4198
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0231(199705)11:8<857::aid-rcm891>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - solid phase microextraction , chemistry , chromatography , hexane , solvent , sampling (signal processing) , gas chromatography , gas chromatography–mass spectrometry , mass spectrometry , organic chemistry , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision
A recently developed solvent‐free sampling method, solid‐phase microextraction, has been employed for sampling the cuticular hydrocarbons from three species of social wasps for GM/MS analysis. Comparison between the gas chromatograms of cuticular hydrocarbons obtained by microextraction and those of hexane‐extracted samples from the same specimens shows that solid‐phase microextraction is very suitable for sampling insect cuticle hydrocarbons, including those of high molecular weight. Because of its simplicity, this method is very suitable for routine work. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.