Single drop microextraction of homoserine lactones based quorum sensing signal molecules, and the separation of their enantiomers using gas chromatography mass spectrometry in the presence of biological matrices

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 101-107

  Malik, Ashok Kumar ^a,b   Fekete, Agnes ^a   Gebefuegi, Istvan ^a   Rothballer, Michael ^a   Schmitt Kopplin, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chiral separation; GC MS; N acyl homoserine lactones; Quorum sensing; Single drop micro extraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449524407     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-009-0183-x     Document Type: Article

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