To date, the chemical composition and the amount and diversity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by different woody plants samples have been measured and characterized through one of the most common techniques, the gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. However, this technique is very time-consuming and requires sample preparation. By contrast, the Proton-Transfer-Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS) represents an innovative tool able to provide the whole mass spectra of VOCs with short response time, high mass resolution and without sample preparation. This technique is fast, non-invasive, highly sensitive with a rapid detection system and a very low mass fragmentation of the volatile molecules. The goal of this study was to characterize the VOCs profile of different wood sample cores using a PTR-ToF-MS tool and thereafter to assess whether VOC emissions were specific for some groups of trees. VOCs released from core wood samples belonging to 14 different species were analyzed and subsequently, using an advanced multivariate class-modeling approach, the groups (softwood and hardwood) and the different tree species were discriminated. PTR-ToF-MS was able to detect VOCs from wood and to discriminate between hardwood and softwood and among different species. The great potential and the rapidity of this analysis method allow the PTR-ToF-MS to become a commercial standard tool for monitoring VOCs emitted by wood. © 2016 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Assessing VOC emission by different wood cores using the PTR-ToF-MS technology / Taiti, C.; Costa, C.; Guidi Nissim, W; Bibbiani, S.; Azzarello, E.; Masi, E.; Pandolfi, C.; Pallottino, F.; Menesatti, P.; Mancuso, S.. - In: WOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 0043-7719. - ELETTRONICO. - 51:(2017), pp. 273-295. [10.1007/s00226-016-0866-5]

Assessing VOC emission by different wood cores using the PTR-ToF-MS technology

TAITI, COSIMO;GUIDI NISSIM, WERTHER;BIBBIANI, SUSANNA;AZZARELLO, ELISA;MASI, ELISA;PANDOLFI, CAMILLA;MANCUSO, STEFANO
2017

Abstract

To date, the chemical composition and the amount and diversity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by different woody plants samples have been measured and characterized through one of the most common techniques, the gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. However, this technique is very time-consuming and requires sample preparation. By contrast, the Proton-Transfer-Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS) represents an innovative tool able to provide the whole mass spectra of VOCs with short response time, high mass resolution and without sample preparation. This technique is fast, non-invasive, highly sensitive with a rapid detection system and a very low mass fragmentation of the volatile molecules. The goal of this study was to characterize the VOCs profile of different wood sample cores using a PTR-ToF-MS tool and thereafter to assess whether VOC emissions were specific for some groups of trees. VOCs released from core wood samples belonging to 14 different species were analyzed and subsequently, using an advanced multivariate class-modeling approach, the groups (softwood and hardwood) and the different tree species were discriminated. PTR-ToF-MS was able to detect VOCs from wood and to discriminate between hardwood and softwood and among different species. The great potential and the rapidity of this analysis method allow the PTR-ToF-MS to become a commercial standard tool for monitoring VOCs emitted by wood. © 2016 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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Taiti, C.; Costa, C.; Guidi Nissim, W; Bibbiani, S.; Azzarello, E.; Masi, E.; Pandolfi, C.; Pallottino, F.; Menesatti, P.; Mancuso, S.
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