Camilla Liscio, Senior Application Chemist, Anatune
Jamie Minaeian, Application Chemist, Anatune

In a world of increasing complexity, analytical chemists must unravel the entirety of the chemical space of products and materials. On this never-ending quest from complexity to clarity, data analytics becomes an essential tool. VOCs are known to impart an odor to products. The traditional approach to quantifying odor uses a sensory panel, which is expensive and can be subject to problems brought about by fatigue. Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS), however, can selectively detect and quantify a wide range of odor compounds in real time, more cost-effectively. The challenge is how to make sense of the rich data set generated by fast SIFT-MS analysis.This is where JMP machine learning and multivariate analytics brings clarity by enabling extraction and understanding of the most important chemical insight. This talk will demonstrate the synergic power of SIFT-MS analysis combined with chemometrics to characterize the chemical space of odor compounds in a real application scenario.