Analysis of mixtures

Rather than comparing the spectrum from a bacterial mixture to the spectra of individual bacteria, spectra from mixtures (or pure cultures) can be examined for the presence of specific biomarker compounds. While the detection of a smaller number of maker ions provides less taxonomic specificity than a complete spectrum, taxonomic specificity is not the only basis for considering the components in a mixture of bacteria. 

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Woodruff and co-workers introduced the expert system PAIRS [67], a program that is able to analyze IR spectra in the same manner as a spectroscopist would. Chalmers and co-workers [68] used an approach for automated interpretation of Fourier Transform Raman spectra of complex polymers. Andreev and Argirov developed the expert system EXPIRS [69] for the interpretation of IR spectra. EXPIRS provides a hierarchical organization of the characteristic groups that are recognized by peak detection in discrete ames. Penchev et al. [70] recently introduced a computer system that performs searches in spectral libraries and systematic analysis of mixture spectra. It is able to classify IR spectra with the aid of linear discriminant analysis, artificial neural networks, and the method of fe-nearest neighbors. 

The general method to be adopted for the analysis of mixtures of organic compounds is to separate them into their components and to... 

Chromatography (Section 13 22) A method for separation and analysis of mixtures based on the different rates at which different compounds are removed from a stationary phase by a moving phase... 

Spectrophotometric titrations are particularly useful for the analysis of mixtures if a suitable difference in absorbance exists between the analytes and products, or titrant. Eor example, the analysis of a two-component mixture can be accomplished if there is a difference between the absorbance of the two metal-ligand complexes (Eigure 9.33). 

The scale of operations, accuracy, precision, sensitivity, time, and cost of methods involving redox titrations are similar to those described earlier in the chapter for acid-base and complexometric titrimetric methods. As with acid-base titrations, redox titrations can be extended to the analysis of mixtures if there is a significant difference in the ease with which the analytes can be oxidized or reduced. Figure 9.40 shows an example of the titration curve for a mixture of Fe + and Sn +, using Ce + as the titrant. The titration of a mixture of analytes whose standard-state potentials or formal potentials differ by at least 200 mV will result in a separate equivalence point for each analyte. 

Quantitative Analysis of Mixtures The analysis of two or more components in the same sample is straightforward if there are regions in the sample s spectrum in which each component is the only absorbing species. In this case each component can be analyzed as if it were the only species in solution. Unfortunately, UV/Vis absorption bands are so broad that it frequently is impossible to find appropriate wavelengths at which each component of a mixture absorbs separately. Earlier we learned that Beer s law is additive (equation 10.6) thus, for a two-component mixture of X and Y, the mixture s absorbance, A, is... 

The generalized standard addition method (GSAM) extends the analysis of mixtures to situations in which matrix effects prevent the determination of 8x and 8y using external standards.When adding a known concentration of analyte to a solution containing an unknown concentration of analyte, the concentrations usually are not additive (see question 9 in Chapter 5). Conservation of mass, however, is always obeyed. Equation 10.11 can be written in terms of moles, n, by using the relationship... 

This experiment demonstrates the application of the generalized standard additions method for the analysis of mixtures of K2Cr207 and KMn04. 

Another development arising from FAB has been its transformation from a static to a dynamic technique, with a continuous flow of a solution traveling from a reservoir through a capillary to the probe tip. Samples are injected either directly or through a liquid chromatography (LC) column. The technique is known as dynamic or continuous flow FAB/LSIMS and provides a convenient direct LC/MS coupling for the on-line analysis of mixtures (Figure 40.2). 

The procedure of simultaneous extracting-spectrophotometric determination of nitrophenols in wastewater is proposed on the example of the analysis of mixtures of mono-, di-, and trinitrophenols. The procedure consists of extraction concentrating in an acid medium, and sequential back-extractions under various pH. Such procedures give possibility for isolation o-, m-, p-nitrophenols, a-, P-, y-dinitrophenols and trinitrophenol in separate groups. Simultaneous determination is carried out by summary light-absorption of nitrophenol-ions. The error of determination concentrations on maximum contaminant level in natural waters doesn t exceed 10%. The peculiarities of application of the sequential extractions under fixed pH were studied on the example of mixture of simplest phenols (phenol, o-, m-, />-cresols). The procedure of their determination is based on the extraction to carbon tetrachloride, subsequent back-extraction and spectrophotometric measurement of interaction products with diazo-p-nitroaniline. 

The perspective of using consecutive reactions is grounded on the example of the analysis of isomeric mono-nitrophenols and anion surface-active substances. The variants of systematic analysis of mixtures of tri-, di- and mono-nitrophenols, anion surface-active substances, based on the combination of measurements of consecutively received extracts at different pH values are discussed. 

Quantitative analysis of mixtures is achieved by evaluating the integral steps of H NMR speetra. This is demonstrated in Fig. 1.11a for 2,4-pentanedione (acetylacetone) which occurs as an equilibrium mixture of 87 % enol and 13 % diketone. 

The hexafluoroacetone derivatives are highly volatile compounds. TTiey can therefore be-used for gas-chromatographic analysis of mixtures of a-amino and... 

S. W. Green, The quantitative analysis of mixtures of chlorofluoromethanes in vapour phase cliromatography , in Vapour Phase Chromatography D. H. Desty (Ed.), Butterwoiths, London, pp. 388 (1957). 

If chloride is present, saturated aqueous silver acetate solution should be added in amounts slightly more than the calculated quantity prior t o the addition of concentrated sulphuric acid. The procedure may be applied to the routine analysis of mixtures of nitric and sulphuric acids, and to the determination of nitrogen in esters such as nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose the latter are easily hydrolysed by strong sulphuric acid after dispersal in glacial acetic acid. 

Lindberg, W., et al. "Partial Least Squares Method for Spectrofluorimetric Analysis of Mixtures of Humic Acid and Ligninsulfonate , Anal. Chem. 1983, (55)643-648. 

Rare earths, analysis of mixture of, by x-ray emission spectrography, 204, 205... 

In summary, examples of the successful use of silica gel as a conventional stationary phase are in the analysis of mixtures containing polarizable and relatively low polarity solutes typified by mixtures of aromatic hydrocarbons, polynuclear aromatics, nitro compounds, carotenes and vitamin A formulas. 

C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra. The sohd-state CNMR spectra of 6,7-dimethyl-2,3-di(pyridin-2-yl)quinoxahne (130) and its salts have been used to complement X-ray information (see above) on fine structure. A study of the spectra of mono- to tetramethylquinoxalines has made possible the analysis of mixtures of such methylated quinoxalines obtained from ambiguous primary syntheses. 

MALDI-ToF is a technique that allows the molecular weights of proteins and peptides to be determined. It is less susceptible to suppression effects than electrospray ionization and thus is able to be used for the direct analysis of mixtures. In the case of a crude tryptic digest, MALDI-ToF will provide a molecular weight profile of the polypeptides present without the analysis time being extended by the need to use some form of chromatographic separation. 

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