The rapid development of solid-phase microextraction, SPME, as a fast, economical and solvent-free technique has received considerable interest. Research performed over the last two decades spotlighted this analytical method as a powerful candidate for a broad field of applications. As a non-hazardous tool, SPME is welcomed in the family of green chemistry. Both qualitative and quantitative investigations can be attained because SPME matches with gas chromatography mass spectrometry, GC-MS, or high-pressure liquid chromatography, HPLC. The conceptual simplicity of SPME makes its inclusion in the undergraduate and high school curriculum appropriate. Moreover, SPME/GC-MS measures samples we can smell with our noses. Inspired by these aspects, the present work is intended to serve as a guide for teachers and students seeking to connect modern analytical instrumentation to our everyday olfactory sense.

Discovering chemicals through solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy

249th National Meeting (2015)

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