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Gas‐liquid chromatography of fatty derivatives. IV. Quantitative analysis of n‐alcohols
Author(s) -
Link W. E.,
Morrissette R. A.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02632094
Subject(s) - chemistry , chromatography , substrate (aquarium) , gas chromatography , detector , replicate , function (biology) , analytical chemistry (journal) , optics , mathematics , statistics , evolutionary biology , biology , geology , oceanography , physics
The separation of fatty alcohols has been accomplished by using a nonpolar substrate on a solid support treated with alkali to reduce adsorptivity. By this technique well‐resolved symmetrical peaks are obtained, and the stability of a nonpolar substrate is retained. Relative detector sensitivity factors have been determined for the alcohols with chain lengths of C 8 through C 18 , permitting a correction of peak areas. The response of the detector is approximately a linear function of chain length for the n‐alcohols. The accuracy and precision of the determination have been studied by a statistical comparison of the results of replicate values with values from known compositions.