Study of the gas chromatographic behavior of selected alcohols and amines.

The gas chromatographic behavior of selected linear and non-linear alcohols and amines was investigated using four capillary columns containing phenyl substitution levels of 0%, 5%, and 50% and 50% cyanopropyl substitution. In a previous study, the positions of specific compounds inside the capillary column were iteratively modeled using only two thermodynamic parameters (ΔH and ΔS). The present study addresses the validation of the two-parameter model for retention time prediction for selected alcohols and amines using thermodynamic data obtained from as few as two data points. The difference between predicted and observed retention times under different temperature conditions was generally less than 1% of the experimental value and the predicted order of elution was correct in the used model.