We studied the aliphatic alcohols in 100 urines from 25 patients with diabetes mellitus under treatment with insulin, oral antidiabetic medication, or special diet. The procedure involves adsorption of the low-molecular-weight urinary metabolites on a porous polymer of 2,6-diphenyl-p-phenylene oxide (Tenax GC), gas-chromatographic separation, mass spectrometric identification, and mass fragment...

Two fungal species commonly found in indoor environments, Penicillium commune and Paecilomyces variotü, were cultivated on pine wood and on a combination of gypsum board and mineral wool. Air from the cultures was adsorbed on Tenax TA and analysed using thermal desorption-cold trap injection gas chromatography. Identification of the produced volatile metabolites was performed by mass spectromet...

The qualitative and quantitative composition of the floral odour of Peltandra uirginica was determined by trapping odour components from freshly cut inflorescences on Tenax and Carbotrap adsorbents using a purge and trap apparatus. Analysis showed that a single novel compound, 1,3,6-trimethyl-2,5-dioxabicyclo[3.2.l.]nonane, comprised nearly 70% of the odour. Four isomers of this compound were f...