Thin-layer chromatography , organic

Table 3.3.3. Quantitative results of paper and thin-layer chromatography organic and environmental...

One of trends of development of thin-layer chromatography implies that replacement of aqueous-organic eluents by micellar surfactants solution. This is reduces the toxicity, flammability, environmental contamination and cost of the mobile phases, reduce sample prepar ation in some cases. 

There is no other facet where thin-layer chromatography reveals its paper-chromatographic ancestry more clearly than in the question of development chambers (Fig. 56). Scaled-down paper-chromatographic chambers are still used for development to this day. From the beginning these possessed a vapor space, to allow an equilibration of the whole system for partition-chromatographic separations. The organic mobile phase was placed in the upper trough after the internal space of the chamber and, hence, the paper had been saturated, via the vapor phase, with the hydrophilic lower phase on the base of the chamber. 

Thin-Layer Chromatography TLC) The function of TLC in organic synthesis is primarily one of allowing the experimenter to follow the progress of the reaction without actually interrupting the reaction. Since successful TLC can be carried out on a minute scale, only a very small fraction of the reaction mixture need be withdrawn and subjected to analysis. The following example of the TLC analysis of the chromic acid oxidation of borneol, described by Davis (3), is a useful model. 

The bacteriochlorin 10 (65 mg, 0.11 mmol) was dissolved in coned H2S04 (18 mL) and allowed lo react at 20 C for 5 min. The mixture was poured into ice, diluted with H20 and NaOAc (7.5 g, 91 mmol) was added. The mixture was extracted several times with CHC13, the organic extractions were washed with H20 (2 x), dried (Na2S04) and evaporated. Preparative thin-layer chromatography (silica gel) gave 11 and 12 yields 10.7 mg (17%) and 44 mg (70%), respectively. 

In reversed-phase thin-layer chromatography (RP-TLC), the choice of solvents for the mobile phase is carried out in a reversed order of strength, comparing with the classical TLC, which determines a reversed order of values of compounds. The reversed order of separation assumes that water is the main component of the mobile phase. Aqueous mixmres of some organic solvents (diethyl ether, methanol, acetone, acetonitrile, dioxane, i-propanol, etc.) are used with good results. 

The components in the organic phase were separated first using thin-layer chromatography (TLC). The organic phase (80 ml) was streaked onto 20 plates of 1000 ym silica GF (Analtech, Inc.,... 

Thin-layer chromatography is employed in many areas of QC and routine monitoring of product quality [458]. Fluorescence scanning, densitometry or videodensitometry are used for quantification. Not all polymer additives are amenable to TLC analysis. Some fatty acid amides are virtually insoluble in organic solvents and cannot be isolated by thin-layer or column chromatography. 

Thin-layer chromatography (TLC)2 has become a valuable tool for the qualitative and semi-quantitative analysis of various organic and mor-... 

Many organic additives can be analysed using the technique of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), particularly using MS for positive identification. HPLC methods have now largely superseded thin layer chromatography (TLC)-based procedures. 

The logarithm of the 1 -octanol - water partition coefficient, denoted log Kq j or log P, indicates the distribution of the compound between the organic and the water phase. For highly lipophilic compounds, the log P is determined via reversed-phase thin-layer chromatography, giving the so-called log P tlc value1. 

The conventional approach to solvent extraction is the batch method. Early work with this method was hampered by the low concentration of the compounds present and the relative insensitivity of the methods of characterization. Thus lipids and hydrocarbons have been separated from seawater by extraction with petroleum ether and ethyl acetate. The fractionation techniques include column and thin-layer chromatography with final characterisation by thin-layer chromatography, infrared, and ultra-violet spectroscopy and gas chromatography. Of these techniques, only gas chromatography is really useful at levels of organic matter present in seawater. With techniques available today such as glass capillary gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, much more information could be extracted from such samples [20]. 

Hydroxypyrimidines have been detected in the Murchison, Murray, and Orgueil carbonaceous chondrites in abundances similar to those of amino acids [7]. Earlier analyses of the Orgueil meteorite By thin layer chromatography of organic extracts indicated the presence of melamine, ammeline, adenine, and guanine [8]. Although these could not be confirmed by Folsome, et al., [7] using GC/MS, recent studies by Schwartz [11] and by Hayatsu, et al., [12] have shown that these constituents of the nucleic acids may indeed exist in the carbonaceous chondrites. 

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