Gas chromatography with spectroscopic detectors

In recent years, capillary gas chromatography (GC) with Fourier Transform I nfrared (FT-IR) and/or mass spectral (MS) detection has become a primary an alytical tool for qualitative and quantitative analysis of complex mixtures . Because of the wide range of applications, the analytical requirements ha ve motivated a variety of chromatographic and detection developments. This review examines those, illustrating with applications that demonstrate the power of GC and multidimensional GC-MS, GC-FT-IR and GC-FT-IR-MS systems fo r solving a variety of analytcal problems. In addition, the article discuss es the integrated performance of such analytical systems with the aid of re cent sample introduction and computer data analysis advances. (C) 1999 Else vier Science B.V. All rights reserved.