Solvent classification using statistical methods

It is remarkable that this overall solvent classification, obtained entirely using statistical methods (PCA), correlates strongly with the chemist s intuition Some of the solvent elasses of Parker s scheme cf. Fig. 3-4) are reproduced in Fig. 3-6. 

Special attention has been given to the chemical and physical properties of organic solvents commonly used in daily laboratory work. Therefore, all Appendix Tables have been improved some have been completely replaced by new ones. A new well-referenced table on solvent-drying has been added (Table A-3). Chapter 3 has been enlarged, in particular by the inclusion of solvent classifications using multivariate statistical methods (Section 3.5). All these amendments justify the change in the title of the book to Solvents and Solvent Effects in Organic Chemistry. 

Classification of Solvents using Multivariate Statistical Methods... 

For phenolics in fruit by-products such as apple seed, peel, cortex, and pomace, an HPLC method was also utilized. Apple waste is considered a potential source of specialty chemicals (58,62), and its quantitative polyphenol profile may be useful in apple cultivars for classification and identification. Chlorogenic acid and coumaroylquinic acids and phloridzin are known to be major phenolics in apple juice (53). However, in contrast to apple polyphenolics, HPLC with a 70% aqueous acetone extract of apple seeds showed that phloridzin alone accounts for ca. 75% of the total apple seed polyphenolics (62). Besides phloridzin, 13 other phenolics were identified by gradient HPLC/PDA on LiChrospher 100 RP-18 from apple seed (62). The HPLC technique was also able to provide polyphenol profiles in the peel and cortex of the apple to be used to characterize apple cultivars by multivariate statistical techniques (63). Phenolic compounds in the epidermis zone, parenchyma zone, core zone, and seeds of French cider apple varieties are also determined by HPLC (56). Three successive solvent extractions (hexane, methanol, aqueous acetone), binary HPLC gradient using (a) aqueous acetic acid, 2.5%, v/v, and (b) acetonitrile fol-... 

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