Capillary Column Gas Chromatography of Environmental Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds

Abstract
The methodologies were described for isolating clean fractions of polycyclic aromatic compounds from diverse environmental samples such as air particulate matter, sediments and fish tissue. The common step in all procedures was the separation of the polycyclic aromatic compound fraction into well-defined chemical classes by adsorption chromatography on an alumina column. These procedures facilitated the detailed characterization of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, S heterocycles and N heterocycles by capillary column gas chromatography.