Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of oils and oil binders in paintings

Abstract

A GC/MS procedure has been developed, optimized, and applied to characterization of oil binders in paintings.

Keywords

• binder characterization
• GC/MS analysis
• painting
• plant oil
• oil binder
• organic-binding media
• works-of-art
• mass-spectrometry
• fatty-acids
• gc-ms
• drying oils
• capillary-electrophoresis
• alkyl chloroformates
• lipid binders
• bile-acids