ASTM_DS25A-1967.pdf

COMPILATION OF GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC DATA 4!Editors:0.E.Schupp III,Eastman Kodak Co.,Rochester,N.Y.,and J.S.Lewis,Tennessee Eastman Co.,Division of Eastman Kodak Co.,Kingsport,Tennessee Sponsor:ASTM Committee E-19 on Gas Chromatography ASTM DATA SERIES PUBLICATION NO.DS 25A List Price$40.00;30 per cent discount to members published by the AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS 1916 Race Street,Philadelphia,Pa.19103 by American Society for Testing and Materials 1967 Library of Congress Catalog Card No.67-26106 Second Edition NOTE The Society is not responsible,as a body,for the statements and opinions advanced in this publication.Printed in Philadelphia,Pa.July,1967 11 CONTENTS Introduction iv Description of Compilation iv Retrieval of Data vii Acknowledgment be References x Table 1Codes for Liquid Phases 1 Table 2Codes for Solid Supports 5 Table 3Codes for Reference Materials 9 Table ACodes for Abstractors 13 Table 5Codes for Type of Unorthodox Data 15 Table 6Codes for Computer Operations 17 Table 7Coden Abbreviations for journal Titles 19 Table 8Gas Chromatographic Data Tabulated on Basis of Liquid Phase 27 Table 9Gas Chromatographic Data Tabulated on Basis of Molecular Formula 295 in Introduction For the past several years an increasing amount of gas chromatographic data has been published for a wide variety of materials.A system for compiling pub-lished data as well as privately generated data was developed by the Gas Chromatography Subcommittee of the Tennessee Eastman Company Analytical Com-mitteef/.1 Data are coded in a standard form and are stored in IBM cards.When desired,the retention data can be retrieved directly from the cards or from listings of the accumulated data which are produced periodically.In 1962,ASTM Committee El9 on Gas Chroma-tography adopted the system developed by J.S.Lewis and his co-workers at the Tennessee Eastman Com-pany.The system was named the Tennessee Eastman-ASTM System.Data in the system were published in 1963 as ASTM STP 343.The designation was later changed to DS 25,of which this is the second edition.Task Group 2 of Subcommittee I,ASTM Committee E-19,was formed to evaluate the original system,to find methods for the accumulation of data from pub-lished and unpublished sources,and finally to keep the data in the system as current as possible.2 In 1965,a group of abstractors under the direction of William Hayles at the Rochester Institute of Tech-nology was hired by ASTM to code retention data from the literature into the system.At present,prob-ably no more than 60 per cent of the published data have been included in this compilation.Only the data abstracted through 1965 are included in the sys-tem at present.However,ASTM has arranged further contracts with the Rochester Institute of Technology under which abstractors at the Institute will code gas chromatography data from the literature through 1967.Eventually,the data will be entered continuously and the system kept up to date.1 The italic numbers in brackets refer to the list of references on page XI.-Present members of the task group are:O.E.Schupp III,chairman,Eastman Kodak Co.;R.A.Hively,secretary,Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.;H.G.Collier,Pennsalt Chemicals Corp.;Irwin Hornstein,U.S.Department of Agriculture;S.A.Haddad,The Foxboro Co.;and J.S.Lewis,Tennessee Eastman Co.Description of the Compilation The object of this compilation is to provide the gas chromatographer with the gas chromatographic conditions used for the separation of a wide variety of compounds and to facilitate the tentative identifica-tion of materials producing peaks on chromatograms.Our ultimate aim is to have reference to all published articles which give conditions for the separation of compounds.When this has been accomplished,refer-ences to all gas chromatographic separations will be readily available.This book contains tabulations of gas chromatographic data printed from punched cards in a format which provides convenient means for rapid retrieval of data.Most of the data were obtained from the literature,although some are unpublished data contributed by the laboratories of the Eastman Kodak Company,the Tennessee Eastman Company,and the Lockheed-California Company.The use of commer-cial names or trademarks to designate some materials is for the convenience of compilers and users of this system and does not imply that they are recommended or preferred for any applications.This volume contains all the retention data cur-rently accumulated.It differs from the first edition in that(1)the volume of data has about doubled,(2)the retention data include the retention index and capacity ratio,(3)a new format is used which will facilitate data retrieval,and(4)reference is made to chromatographic data for specific compounds which are in a nonstandard or unorthodox retention form.Unorthodox retention data would include references to a journal where only the chromatogram is given,where nonlinear temperature programming is used,or where retention dat