Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy (GC-MS) is a great analytical tool used in a variety of settings, including forensics and environmental labs. As Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) has recently acquired a GC-MS, it was the goal of SLCC students in the local American Chemical Society (ACS) chapter to develop labs for other students to learn how to use this instrument. A currently scheduled lab on extraction of essential oils from common spices was adapted to include use of the GC-MS .Then the lab was expanded and the essential oils are infused in to chocolate and analyzed by GC-MS as part of a multi-week project in the organic lab class.

Infused of essential oils by GC-MS for an undergraduate organic chemistry laboratories

247th National Meeting (2014)

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