Perethylated-β-CD, perpentylated-β-CD and 2,6-di-O-pentyl-β-CD were coated onto the fused silica capillary by sol-gel process. The thermal stability of the three sol-gel columns was investigated by pyrolysis gas chromatography(PyGC). The PyGC results show that the sol-gel CDs columns have an outstanding thermal stability, compared with the conventional CDs columns. The temperature of preliminary pyrolysis of the CDs in sol-gel net can be as high as 300 ℃, of the alkylated-β-CDs are at 200℃. The column performances were also studied. The results show that the sol-gel CDs columns have a good separation ability to the disubstituted benzene isomers such as cresols and xylene isomers.
