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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Chem. 2011 Nov 23;83(24):9531–9539. doi: 10.1021/ac202317m

Table 4.

Effect of analysis time, split mode and second dimension cycle time on corrected 2D peak capacity and number of observed peaks.

a) 12 s Analysis Time [min]
15 30 60

Split Mode split-less split split-less split split-less split
nc, 2D a 360 793 1073 1534 2257 2912
nc, 2D Ratio b 2.20 1.43 1.29
# Observed Peaks 36 113 111 158 165 213
# Peaks Ratio c 3.14 1.42 1.29
b) 21 s Analysis Time [min]
15 30 60

Split Mode split-less split split-less split split-less split
nc, 2D a 291 614 899 1221 1975 2456
nc, 2D Ratio b 2.11 1.36 1.24
# Observed Peaks 43 80 103 128 154 184
# Peaks Ratio c 1.86 1.24 1.19
a

Corrected 2D peak capacity calculated by eq. (5);

b

Ratio of measured corrected 2D peak capacity for split to split-less mode;

c

Ratio of the number of observed peaks for split to split-less mode.