Issue 7, 1999

Separation and characterisation of phenol–formaldehyde (resol) prepolymers using packed-column supercritical fluid chromatography with APCI mass spectrometric detection

Abstract

Packed-column supercritical fluid chromatography (pSFC), with negative-ion atmospheric-pressure chemical-ionisation (APCI) mass spectrometric (MS) detection has been used to analyse a commercial phenol–formaldehyde (resol) prepolymer. After initial optimisation of the system using a standard dimer species [bis(2-hydroxyphenyl)methane], it was possible to identify positively 34 components in the resin sample, including the starting reagents (phenol and cresol), and a range of dimers, trimers, tetramers and pentamers, with varying phenol/cresol ratios and amounts of methylol substitution. The method requires no pre-separation derivatisation of the resin sample, and a chromatographic run time of ca. 10 min.

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Analyst, 1999,124, 993-997

Separation and characterisation of phenol–formaldehyde (resol) prepolymers using packed-column supercritical fluid chromatography with APCI mass spectrometric detection

M. J. Carrott and G. Davidson, Analyst, 1999, 124, 993 DOI: 10.1039/A901683J

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