Analysis of anthocyanins in powdered berry extracts by planar chromatography linked with bioassay and mass spectrometry.

Major anthocyanins were extracted with acidified methanol and characterised in powdered berry extracts of bilberry, blueberry, chokeberry, açai berry and cranberry by HPTLC-Vis-MS for the first time. A combined 2-step normal phase separation was applied, first for separation of anthocyanins and secondly of anthocyanidins. Documentation was performed under white light illumination (transmission mode).

Gas chromatography-full scan mass spectrometry determination of traces of chemical warfare agents and their impurities in air samples by inlet based thermal desorption of sorbent tubes.

A sensitive gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) based analytical method was developed for detection of the chemical warfare agents (CWA) and related compounds in air/vapor samples. The method uses a Tenax TA packed GC liner as an air/vapor sampling tube and Programmable Temperature-Vaporization (PTV) GC inlet as the thermal desorber. This approach eliminates secondary focusing step and allows transfer of desorbed analytes as sharp bands directly to the head of GC column.