Gordon B M, Uhrig M S, Borgerding M F, Chung H L, Coleman W M, Elder J F, Giles J A, Moore D S, Rix C E, White E L
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Bowman Gray Technical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27102.
J Chromatogr Sci. 1988 Apr;26(4):174-80. doi: 10.1093/chromsci/26.4.174.
The major components of an alkaloid-free, flue-cured, tobacco essential oil sample are isolated and identified. This is accomplished by utilizing modern hyphenated analytical methods. The instrumentation developed to accomplish this are an automated multidimensional gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer/flame ionization detector (MDGC/MS/FID) and a multidimensional gas chromatograph/matrix isolation/Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (MDGC/MI/FTIR). A total of 306 compounds is identified in the essential oil, of which 80 are found as tobacco constituents for the first time.