Forensic Study of Volatile Organic Compounds Released from Decaying Bodies

This work represents the first bioforensic application of two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GCxGC-ToFMS). The use of this technique improves the resolution, the sensitivity and peak capacity of the analysis for very complex mixture. For this work, we study the impact of very polar second dimension column by using ionic liquid phase. This research shows the impact on the separation and detection power for the VOCs samples.