Publications by authors named "Risa Onodera"

After extractive alkylation combined with plasma deproteinization, we used gas chromatography to assay for short-chain carboxylic acids from formic acid to valeric acid in plasma and urine. It was possible to provide highly sensitive analysis with 0.1-3.

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In the analysis of short-chain carboxylic acids such as formic acid and acetic acid in aqueous solution using extractive alkylation gas chromatography, tetrahexylammonium bromide (THAB) as a phase-transfer catalyst (PTC) causes a high intensity and broad peaks in the gas chromatogram, and interfere with the detection of carboxylic acid derivatives. By an easy treatment of the extractive alkylation solution with perchloric acid and n-hexane, it is possible to remove more than 95% of THAB, and to provide good gas chromatogram with a little admixture of carboxylic acid derivatives. The desensitization was 16% at the maximum, the contamination of the glass insert in gas chromatograph and liquid phase in column by THAB was minimized, and trouble in continuous measurement could be avoided.

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