Overpressured Thin-Layer Chromatography and Its Applications

Abstract
In recent years, a rapid progress can be observed both in column and planar liquid chromatographic techniques. In the field of liquid column chromatography the most spectaular achievement was the development of high-performance liquid chromatographic/HPLC/ systems by means of several special instruments and sorbents/1, 2/. As regards planar techniques, the most significant break-through is the development of highperformance thin-layer chromatography/HPTLC//3/ based on the application of fine-particle sorbents. Both techniques proved to be very useful in many fields of chemical analysis, although the use of the latter is more restricted, mainly to micro chromatographic studies.