ORCID Identifier(s)

0000-0002-2718-6023

Graduation Semester and Year

2017

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry

Department

Chemistry and Biochemistry

First Advisor

Purnendu K Dasgupta

Abstract

Height- and area-based quantitation approaches reduce two-dimensional data to a single value. For a calibration set, there is a single height- or area-based quantitation equation. We introduce a new quantitation method; a Width based method that consists of using the width of a peak (Wh), at any height h, (a fixed height, not a fixed fraction of the peak maximum), leading to any number of calibration curves. This particularity of width-based quantitation (WBQ) allows the quantitation of peaks over very large scales, making the quantitation of truncated peaks possible. We showed that WBQ can offer superior overall performance (lower root mean square relative error over the entire range) compared to area- or height-based linear regression methods, rivaling weighted linear regression, provided that response is uniform near the height used for width measurement. WBQ forces one to not ignore the 2-dimensionality of a peak and all of the information from the peak one can obtain; which allows the detection and quantitation of impurity down to 1% of impurity.

Keywords

Width, Quantitation, Calibration, Impurity

Disciplines

Chemistry | Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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Chemistry Commons

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