The phrase "alkane series" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in the context of organic chemistry to refer to a group of hydrocarbons that follow a specific formula and structure.
Example: "The alkane series includes compounds such as methane, ethane, and propane, which are all saturated hydrocarbons."
Alternatives: "paraffin series" or "alkanes group".
The SPR effect of gold was measured in nitrogen and compared with the gaseous alkane series which caused a shift of the position of the SPR effect.
The activity and the selectivity of the vanadyl pyrophosphate catalyst in the heterogeneous oxidation of C1 C7 alkane series is compared.
Studying an alkane series ranging from CH4 to C16H34, we find that the desorption prefactor increases with increasing chain length for the short chains until a certain chain length is reached when it becomes essentially constant and independent of chain length.
The retention index was calculated by comparing the retention times of the peaks with those of the alkane series C8 C40.
Peak identity was established by comparison of the fragmentation pattern with MS publicly available databases (NIST), using a match cut-off criterion of 750/1000 and by RI using the alkane series as standards.
To detect and eliminate retention time shifts, a standard alkane series mixture (C-10 to C-40) was injected periodically into the GC/MS systems.
This latter method requires pure compound adjustable parameters: pseudo-ionization energies J that may be calculated by group contribution in the case of n-alkane series.
The n-alkane series (alkane standard solution C8-C20, Fluka, Sigma-Aldrich) was run using the same method to benchmark the retention indices.
Carbon isotopic ratios for the n-alkane series C9 C20 seem to show a different pattern (Fig. 4) from the one produced in McCollom's experiments (2010).
Retention indices were calculated after analyzing the C6-C24 n-alkane Supelco(Supelco, Bellefonte, PA, USA) under the same chromatographic conditions.
In addition to the plasma samples, several samples of methyl stearate in heptane (5 ng/μl) were run to check the sensitivity of the instrument and three n-alkane series (C8-C40) were also run to allow calculation of retention indexes, RI.
