ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly discusses the application, chemical properties and physical properties of acrolein. It presents detailed information on the air analysis and analysis of aqueous and nonaqueous samples of acrolein. Acrolein is used to control aquatic weed, algae, and slime, and in leather tanning. It is colorless, volatile liquid and soluble in water. During the analysis of aqueous and nonaqueous samples of acrolein, aqueous samples are extracted by the purge and trap method. The volatile analyte is thermally desorbed from the trap and swept onto a gas chromatography (GC) column for separation, and detected by flame ionization detector (FID) or GC/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Aqueous samples or aqueous extracts of nonaqueous samples are analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) on a C-18 reverse phase column. During the air analysis of acrolein, air is drawn through a solid sorbent tube containing 2-(hydroxymethyl)piperidine on XAD-2.
