Gas Chromatograph/Plasma Chromatograph Interface and Its Performance in the Detection of Musk Ambrette

Abstract

The plasma chromatograph (PC) was coupled with a gas chromatograph equipped with a flame ionization detector (FID). Column effluent was split two-thirds to the FID and one-third to the PC. For a 10 nanogram sample of musk ambrette dissolved in benzene it was shown that the PC showed no response to benzene, that the musk ambrette could be detected when incompletely resolved from the benzene, that the response of the PC to column bleed, benzene, and solute were independent, and that the sensitivity of the PC was at least comparable to that of the FID.