How can you optimize the temperature program in a GC-MS instrument, especially when peaks in the high-temperature range coelute?

24 February 2025 1 6K Report

my method has been used so long that two of my peaks are noe coeluting.

Dear Professor Ekeberg,

I need to see the chromatogram and read your present temperature program before I can suggest anything. Can you provide them?

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