Do we always need mass spectrometry with gas chromatography?
气相色谱分析中是否一定要用质谱检测器? (英文)

The detector, as well as being an essential supporting device for the gas chromatography (GC) has also played a critical role in the development of the technique as a whole. The mass spectrometer (MS) is still the commonly praised detector as before. In fact, the information of fragmentation patterns is seldom used in practice, and the GC-MS instrument is even more expensive. For today's analytical problems, it seems that element specific detectors can and should be used for many applications rather than GC-MS.