Communications. Construction of a capillary gas chromatography inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry transfer line and application of the technique to the analysis of alkyllead species in fuel
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
- Vol. 7 (7) , 1147-1149
- https://doi.org/10.1039/ja9920701147
Abstract
The interfacing of a capillary gas chromatograph with an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer is described. The interfacing required only a simple modification to the conventional inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) torch and the construction of a heated transfer line. Capillary gas chromatography ICP-MS has a high chromatographic resolving power, is sensitive and element specific. The technique shows great potential of becoming a very useful method for the analysis of a wide range of volatile organometallic compounds. As an example, the quantitative analysis of alkyllead compounds in a complex hydrocarbon mixture (limit of detection 0.7 pg s–1 and <5% RSD) is reported but the method is also applicable to the analysis of relatively involatile organometallics.Keywords
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