As performing petroleum biomarkers analysis in marine sediments by GC-MS, which compounds would be great as surrogate/internal standards?

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Colin Ray

Deuterated steranes have been used as IS for biomarker quantification. Chiron Laboratories in Norway have a selection of commercially available deuterated and non deuterated standards for petroleum biomarker analysis

http://www.chiron.no/GetFile.ashx?id=427

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4423240/

Marina Reback D Garcia

Dr. Colin Ray, thank you very much! Very helpful information! Best regards

Paulo Baisch

Hi Marina, how are you? We have advanced the detection of biomarkers by GCMS and we are ready to collaborate with you.

O Eng. Marcio do Instituto de Pesquisa da Marinha is here in the LOG- FURG and he is working with GCMS.

Regards

Paulo