Analysis of Multiple Classes of Cigarette Smoke Constituents by GCxGC-TOFMS

摘要

Tobacco pyrolysis produces harmful vapors that contain toxic and carcinogenic components. Characterization of these components is challenging because tobacco smoke is a complex mixture containing compounds from several chemical classes. This complexity has traditionally required multiple analysis meth-ods along with considerable sample clean-up to target compound classes individually. GCXGC provides improved peak capacity and low level detection to measure multiple compound classes simultaneously, thus minimizing sample clean-up and the need for multiple analyses.