Key Words:Linear temperature programmed retention indices Gasoline range hydrocarbons Chlorinated hydrocarbons Effect of column pressure on retention index
SummaryThis paper describes the experimentally determined linear temperature programmed gas chromatographic retention behavior of hundreds of gasoline range hydrocarbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons on a cross-linked 100 9' 0 polydimethylsiloxane stationary phase.The retention indices of additional compounds which were not available as pure standards were measured in a synthetic gasoline after they had been positively identified by matching mass and infrared spectra.possible using a single capillary column a single high resolution gas chromatographic column often, nevertheless, provides Gwfficient separation of the components present to enable tentative identification and quantitation of many individual compounds When a mass spectrometer or infrared spectrophotometer are used as detectors, identification can become positive and even components which coelute can sometimes be individually quantitied The distribution of alkanes, alkenes, cycloalkanes and aromatic compounds, as a function of carbon number, in gasoline range distillate fuels is another important measurement. I t has been performed by a variety of techniques, including the fluorescent indicator analysis method (FIA) [ l ] , HPLC [2], mass spectrometry [3], and several gas chromatographic methods 14, 5).The experimentally determined retention information has been used to estimate the retention indices of additional compounds by extrapolation or interpolation of plots of carbon number against retention index of homologs.Isothermally determined Kovats retention indices of compounds measured on 100 9'0 polydimethylsiloxane have been taken from the literature and converted to linear temperature programmed retention indices using the method of Guan eta/ [l 11. For many of these compounds, an experimentally determined linear temperature programmed retention index was measured: agreement between experimental and converted values was excellent.In total, retention indices are presented for 480 compounds, including all possible alkylbenzenes containing ten or fewer carbon atoms, and over 150 monoenes and dienes.The effect of column pressure and the average linear velocity of the helium carrier gas on retention index and order of elution is described and discussed.