ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly discusses the application, chemical properties and physical properties of cumene. It presents detailed information on the air analysis and analysis of aqueous and nonaqueous samples of cumene. Cumene is used as a solvent in organic synthesis and colorless liquid with an aromatic odor. It is insoluble in water and miscible with organic solvents. During the analysis of aqueous and nonaqueous samples of cumene, a measured volume of sample is purged with helium and vapors of cumene are collected on a sorbent trap. Cumene is thermally desorbed from the sorbent trap and backflushed with helium onto a gas chromatography (GC) column for separation from other volatile compounds, and determined by photoionization detector (PID), flame ionization detector (FID), or a mass spectrometer (MS). During the air analysis of cumene, air is drawn through a sorbent tube packed with coconut shell charcoal.
