CORESTA Meeting, Smoke/Technology, Xian, 2001, ST 14
Isotopic labeling to elucidate carbohydrate pyrolysis mechanisms
Philip Morris USA, Research Center, Richmond, VA, USA
The flash pyrolysis of all six; of alpha-D-glucose, followed by GC/MS analysis, was used to determine the location from within the sugar molecule that the various product fragments arose. Most of the products arose intramolecularly: isotopically...