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GC-MS Methods for Terpenoids

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Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry

Part of the book series: Modern Methods of Plant Analysis ((MOLMETHPLANT,volume 3))

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Terpenoids are widely distributed in living systems and they occur predominantly as plant products with an immense number of members. Despite their structural diversity, many of them are chemically and physically closely related to each other. Sophisticated techniques are therefore required to separate mixtures of them and to identify the particular components. Terpenoids are, with only a few exceptions, volatile compounds. Thus gas chromatography is the analytical method of choice and has the great advantage that it can easily be combined with mass spectrometry.

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Witte, L. (1986). GC-MS Methods for Terpenoids. In: Linskens, H.F., Jackson, J.F. (eds) Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82612-2_7

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