Table 2.

Analyte properties including structure, vapor pressure (VP; at 25 °C), relative sweetness to sucrose, drift times, and reduced mobilities for 50 ng deposits of specified sugar alcohols at base case instrument conditions (Table 1). Drift times and reduced mobility values represent the preliminarily assigned chloride adducts. Vapor pressures were estimated using EPI Suite v4.11, US EPA, 2014.

Compound	Structure	Molecular Formula	Molecular Weight (g mol−1)	Relative Sweetness to Sucrose (%) 37, 38	VP (kPa)	Drift Time (ms)	K0 (cm2 V−1 s−1)
Glycerol		C3H8O3	92.09	80	1.06×10−5	10.5	1.761
Erythritol		C4H10O4	112.12	70	6.99×10−8	11.4	1.624
Pentaerythritol		C5H12O4	136.15	-	3.37×10−9	12.0	1.545
Xylitol		C5H12O5	152.15	100	2.61×10−4	12.3	1.499
Inositol		C6H12O6	180.16	50	1.77×10−11	13.1	1.417
Sorbitol		C6H14O6	182.17	50–60	1.75×10−10	13.2	1.405
Mannitol		C6H14O6	182.17	50–70	1.75×10−10	13.1	1.410
Maltitol		C12H24O11	344.13	90	2.98×10−18	-	-