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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 896, Issue 1-2, Pages 117-124Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9673(00)00365-4
Keywords
Allium spp.; extraction methods; cryogenic trapping; thiosulfinates; thiopropanal-S-oxide
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We improved CC-MS analysis of onion volatiles by comparing organic solvent partition with solid-phase microextraction (SPME) following cryo-trapping isolation and by comparing the same extraction methods on direct onion juice. Cryotrapping produces very small quantities of volatiles and therefore is not a suitable extraction method for CC-MS analysis. We confirm that SPME accelerates the degradation of labile thiosulfinates but the lacrymatory factor remains intact. The identification of Allium thiosulfinates is only obtained on juice extracted by diethyl ether using a fast CC-MS analysis on a 10 m X 0.3 mm column of 4 mum coating, with routine splitless injection. The lacrymatory factor is best analysed directly on fresh onion juice by SPME with the same chromatographic conditions. To characterise and to quantify all the true onion volatiles, we propose to analyse the same sample by successive SPME-GC-MS and solvent extraction-CC-MS. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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