Precoated layers chemically bonded plates

Precoated plates are also available for reversed-phase liquid-liquid partition thin-layer chromatography. Here the silica gel has been treated with an octadecyl silylating reagent thus coating the particles with a non-polar chemically-bonded thin film. The solvent employed is more polar than the film and chromatographic development results from partition between these two phases. 

C. A. T. Brinkman and G. de Vries, Thin-layer chromatography on chemically bonded phases a comparison of precoated plates, J. Chromatogr., 258 43 (1983). 

Native and microcrystalline cellulose precoated plates are used in the life sciences for the separation of polar compounds (e.g. carbohydrates, carboxylic acids, amino acids, nucleic acid derivatives, phosphates, etc) [85]. These layers are unsuitable for the separation of compounds of low water solubility unless first modified, for example, by acetylation. Several chemically bonded layers have been described for the separation of enantiomers (section 10.5.3). Polyamide and polymeric ion-exchange resins are available in a low performance grade only for the preparation of laboratory-made layers [82]. Polyamide layers are useful for the reversed-phase separation and qualitative analysis of phenols, amino acid derivatives, heterocyclic nitrogen compounds, and carboxylic and sulfonic acids. Ion-exchange layers prepared from poly(ethyleneimine), functionalized poly(styrene-divinylbenzene) and diethylaminoethyl cellulose resins and powders and are used primarily for the separation of inorganic ions and biopolymers. 

Chapter 3 through 6 deal with the commercial and noncommercial stationary phases used for the direct and indirect enantioseparations by means of TLC and with the chiral modifiers of mobile phases, which are used exclusively in direct separations. Chapter 3 describes the commercial chiral and nonchiral sorbent materials and commercial precoated layers used in chiral separations. Thus, it deals with silica gel native and esterified cellulose chiral plates (reversed phase plates impregnated with a chiral selector) and C-18, C-18W, diol, diphenyl, and C-2 chemically bonded silica gel. At the end of this chapter, the author discusses the quantification of enantiomers by using densitometry, depending on the type of the stationary phase employed. 

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