Organic compounds — Instrumentation and materials

Materials

Materials we analyse include:

• Biological materials (e.g. faeces, urine, blood)
• Bones and fossils
• Oil
• Potsherds
• Refined chemical fractions
• Resins
• Soil/sediment
• Animal/vegetation tissue
• Water

We target:

• Amino acids
• Carbohydrates
• Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs), i.e. TEX₈₆
• BIT
• MBT-CBT
• High molecular weight compounds/Polymers
• Lipids
• Long-chain alkenones, i.e. UK₃₇
• Metabolomics
• Phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs)
• Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Instrumentation

Instruments we use include:

• Thermo Scientific ISQ (single quadrupole) mass spectrometer with GC/MS capability
• Agilent 7200B GC/Q–TOF (quadrupole time–of–flight hybrid) mass spectrometer with GC/MS capability
• Thermo Scientific ISQ (single quadrupole) mass spectrometer with a CDS 6200 Pyroprobe providing Py–GC/MS capability
• ThermoFisher Quantum Access (triple quadrupole) mass spectrometer with (ESI/APCI) HPLC/MS/MS capability
• NERC Thermo Scientific MSQ (single quadrupole) mass spectrometer with (ESI/APCI) HPLC/MS capability
• ThermoFisher Fusion ID–X (Orbitrap) mass spectrometer with (ESI/APCI) HPLC/MSn and IC/MSn capability
• ThermoElectron DELTA XP GC–combustion–isotope ratio MS comprising combustion and combustion/reduction interfaces
• ThermoFisher Delta V GC–combustion–isotope ratio MS comprising GC IsoLink and Conflo 4 interfaces
• IsoPrime 100 GC–combustion–isotope ratio MS
• IsoPrime VisION GC–combustion–isotope ratio MS
• ThermoFisher Delta V LC–isotope ratio MS comprising LC IsoLink interface