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. 2021 Feb 24;11:4426. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-84040-z

Table 1.

Polymer coating compositions of the GC columns and structures of the surrogate molecules used in COSMOthermX. The circled parts (red) on the molecular fragments refer to the groups that were disregarded using the weight string function in COSMOthermX.

GC system
Column Coating composition according to manufacturer Manufacturer GC oven temperature program GC system/detection Fragments representing the polymer phase in COSMOthermX
SPB-Octyl Poly(50% n-octy/50% dimethylsiloxane) Supelco

70 °C (1 min)

10 °C/min

280 °C (10 min)

Agilent 7890 GC/Agilent 6530 QTOF-MS graphic file with name 41598_2021_84040_Figa_HTML.gif
HP-5ms

Poly(5% diphenyl/

95% dimethylsiloxane)

Agilent Technologies

70 °C (0.1 min) 10 °C/min

280 °C (10 min)

Agilent 7890A GC/Agilent 7000A Triple Quad GC/MS
DB-17ms Poly(50% phenyl/50% dimethylsiloxane)1 Agilent Technologies

60 °C (1 min)

10 °C/min

300 °C (10 min)

Agilent 7890 GC/Agilent 6530 QTOF-MS
InertCap-17ms Poly(50% diphenyl/50% dimethylsiloxane) GL Sciences

70 °C (1 min) 20 °C/min

300 °C (10 min)

Agilent 7890A GC/Agilent 7000A Triple Quad GC/MS
DB-225ms

Poly(50% cyano-propylphenyl/ 50%

dimethylsiloxane) 1

Agilent Technologies

70 °C (0.1 min) 10 °C/min

240 °C (15 min)

Agilent 7890 GC/Agilent 6530 QTOF-MS
SolGel-WAX Polyethylene glycol SGE Analytical Science

70 °C (1 min)

10 °C/min

280 °C (5 min)

Agilent 7890 GC/Agilent 6530 QTOF-MS

1 Silarylene-siloxane copolymer; 2 Instead of 5 and 95% mole fractions, 5.3 and 94.7% was used as the liquid phase composition for HP-5ms in COSMOthermX since the larger fragment contains not only diphenylsiloxane, but dimethylsiloxane as well.