A Compendium of GC: Detection, Past and Present

Gas chromatography makes use of a wide variety of detection methods. In addition to the most often used flame-ionization detection (FID), electron-capture detection (ECD), thermal conductivity detection (TCD), and mass-selective detection (MSD), the list of other detection methods is long. They really shine when deployed properly, but their properties and applications can be a bewildering alphabet soup. This instalment presents a compendium of gas chromatography (GC) detection methods, both past and vanished as well as those that are current and relevant to today's separation challenges.
In the six and a half decades since its inception, gas chromatography (GC) has seen a wide variety of detection methods. Four of them arguably account for greater than 90% [...]