Hi everyone. I am doing research about oxidation of ethanol to various products such as acetaldehyde and acetic acid in solution. Do you know what is the best method to detect all of compounds? Thank you!
Ethanol and acetate could be properly analysed by HPLC methods with 87H column from Biorad under the condition of 5mM H2SO4, column temperature of 55oC with a flow rate of 0.6ml/min. I have not detect acetaldehyde, but I think it can also be distingusihed from the ethanol and acetate peaks.