Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 8, 234-238, May 1967
Copyright © 1967 by Lipid Research, Inc.
Gas-liquid chromatography of 2-chloroethyl esters using a detector specific for halogens
Arthur Karmen
Department of Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
The gas-liquid chromatography of 2-chloroethyl derivatives of short- and long-chain monocarboxylic acids, and of short-chain dicarboxylic acids and aldehydes has been studied with a dual-flame ionization detector that provided simultaneous records of the concentrations of chlorine and of total organic material in the column effluent. The chloroethyl derivatives of dicarboxylic acids and aldehydes could be distinguished from the chloroethyl esters of monocarboxylic acids on the basis of different ratios of responses of the two detectors. Analysis of a mixture of chloroethyl derivatives prepared from a natural product revealed that several compounds that might ordinarily have been identified as unsaturated or branched-chain fatty acid esters on the basis of their retention times had the higher chlorine content characteristic of chloroethyl derivatives of aldehydes or dicarboxylic acids.
Supplementary key words gas-liquid chromatography chloroethyl derivatives mono- and dicarboxylic acids aldehydes flame ionization detector specific for halogens
Submitted on November 30, 1966
Accepted on January 24, 1967