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Chromatographic Fingerprinting by Template Matching for Data Collected by Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography
Published on: September 2, 2020
Biennial review of planar chromatography: 2009-2011
1Lafayette College, Department of Chemistry, Easton, PA 18042, USA. shermaj@lafayette.edu
Abstract:
The most important advances in the planar chromatography published between November 1, 2009 and November 1, 2011 are reviewed in this paper. Included are an introduction to the current status of the field; history, student experiments, books, and reviews; theory and fundamental studies; apparatus and techniques for sample preparation and TLC separations (sample application and plate development with the mobile phase); detection and identification of separated zones (chemical and biological detection, TLC/MS, and TLC coupled with other methods); techniques and instruments for quantitative analysis; preparative layer chromatography; and thin layer radiochromatography. Selected applications are given in the various sections of the review, especially for modern HPTLC-densitometry.
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