Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health

Organic Chemistry

Measurements Supported:

GC and GC/MS

• Hewlett Packard Gas Chromatograph with Electron Capture Detector

• Agilent GC/Mass Selective Detector and Perkin-Elmer Automatic Thermal Desorption Unit

• Agilent Gas Chromatograph with Mass Selective Detector (Electron Impact and Negative Chemical Ionization modes), Micro Electron Capture Detector, and Flame Ionization Detector

• Agilent Gas Chromatograph with dual injector, dual capillary column, and dual Micro Electron Capture Detector

Analysis of:

• organochlorine pesticides, PCBs

• volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air samples collected on thermal desorption tubes

• polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), Jet Fuel, PCB metabolites (hydroxylated PCBs), Naphthaline metabolites (Naphthols), tri-methylol-propane phosphate, tri-cresyl-phosphates and VOCs extracted from dermal and air samples

 HPLC

• Agilent High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph with UV-VWD

• Agilent High Pressure Liquid chromatograph with Fluorescence Detector

Analysis of:

• aldehydes

• PAHs and PAH metabolites

 Indoor Air Exchange

• Agilent Gas Chromatograph with Micro Electron Capture Detector and In-house-built Automated Thermal Desorption Unit

Analysis of:

• air exchange rate (AER)