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Preparative-layer chromatography (PLC) can be used for the fractionation and/or isolation of compounds in amounts up to 1000 mg. According to the elution mode, it can be classified into classical PLC (i.e., conventional capillary-flow) and forced-flow PLC (e.g., OPLC and RPC). The main differences between analytical TLC/ HPTLC plates and preparative PLC plates are the layer thickness, mean particle size, and particle size distribution. In TLC and HPTLC, layer thickness is typically 0.2 or 0.25 mm. Mean particle size is about 12 jam in TLC and 5 jam in HPTLC, and the particle size distribution is up to 20 jam for TLC and about 10 jam for HPTLC. Consequently, HPTLC offers better resolution and lower limit of detections (LODs) than conventional TLC [17]. 

Table 5.1 illustrates the differences in scale of operations between normal analytical TLC, preparative layer chromatography and preparative column chromatography. Separations which have been successfully achieved by analytical TLC may be transferred directly to the preparative layer, because the same sorption media with the same grain size are used in each technique. However, it is not always possible to transfer directly, separations which have been successfully achieved by analytical TLC to preparative column chromatography with equal success because appreciably different adsorbent grain sizes are used in the two techniques. 

Halpaap [2] discusses in some detail the experimental techniqne of preparative layer chromatography with sample quantities between 0.1 and 100 mg, nsing plates up to 100 cm X 20 cm in area and adsorbent layers up to 2 mm thick. 

The aporphinoid alkaloid PO-3 (129) was also prepared by intermolecular benzyne cycloaddition between 1-methylene isoquinolines 148 and arynes derived from 147 (Scheme 53). The alkaloid was finally isolated by means of preparative thin layer chromatography (91JOC2984). 

To obtain reliable chromatograms in the final step of the determination of the analytes by LC or GC, it is important to remove interfering signals resulting from coelution of other compounds. To this end, a variety of techniques are applied for cleanup of the sample extract. The most effective procedures for sample cleanup for PAH measurements are partitioning between M, N-dimethylformamide/water/cyclo-hexane and LC on silica and on Sephadex LH 20. Other cleanup procedures include LC on alumina or XAD-2 and preparative thin-layer chromatography. 

Because of the similarities in the theory and practice of these two procedures, they will be considered together. Both are examples of partition chromatography. In paper chromatography, the cellulose support is extensively hydrated, so distribution of the solutes occurs between the immobilized water (stationary phase) and the mobile developing solvent. The initial stationary liquid phase in thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is the solvent used to prepare the thin layer of adsorbent. However, as developing solvent molecules move through the stationary phase, polar solvent molecules may bind to the immobilized support and become the stationary phase. 

Thin layer chromatography provides a rapid, easy and cost-effective means for screening for cannabis materials and making comparisons between seizures. The cannabinoids are readily oxidized and so should be prepared for TLC in a solvent in which they are stable. As with the swabs for trace samples, ethanol satisfies this criterion at this stage. 

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