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Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry of Bisphenol A Adducts with Propylene Oxide

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Gas chromatography/resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC/REMPI-TOFMS) was applied to the measurement of a sample of raw material, the main component of which was bisphenol A di(2-hydroxypropyl) ether, which is a bisphenol A propylene oxide 2 mol adduct (BPA-2PO). Consequently, the peak for the main component could be ionized and detected via ultraviolet laser pulse. Moreover, other components that were considered to be byproducts were also detected: an isomer of the main component along with bisphenol A propylene oxide 1 mol adduct and 3 mol adduct (BPA-1PO and BPA-3PO). In GC/REMPI-TOFMS, an intense molecular ion peak was obtained and soft ionization was achieved for all bisphenol A adducts with propylene oxide, compared with a conventional GC–MS coupled with electron ionization (EI). Based on the results of the GC/REMPI-TOFMS, the ratio of the peak area of the molecular ions of BPA-3PO against that of BPA-2PO was calculated to be 14 %.

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Financial support from the Inter-University Network for Common Utilization of Research Equipment is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui, 910-8507, Japan

    Hikaru Yamamoto, Takaaki Fujii & Tomohiro Uchimura

  2. Corporate Research and Innovation Center, NICCA CHEMICAL CO., LTD, 4-23-1 Bunkyo, Fukui, 910-8670, Japan

    Akiko Yamakoshi & Toshihide Tsukatani

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Yamamoto, H., Yamakoshi, A., Tsukatani, T. et al. Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry of Bisphenol A Adducts with Propylene Oxide. Chromatographia 78, 1499–1503 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10337-015-2985-9

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