Published:Journal of Chromatographic Science,
ISSN 0021-9665Volume
40, Number 10, November/December 2002, pp. 585-597
Plant Drug Analysis by Planar Chromatography
Nicole Galand, Jacques Pothier*, and Claude Viel*
Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie, Faculté de Pharmacie, 31, Avenue Monge,
37200—Tours, France
Optimal performance laminar chromatography and automated multiple
development chromatography are relatively recent techniques of planar chromatography
that can be applied with success in plant material analysis. Therefore, these
methods are used to study plant extracts and constituents belonging to different
chemical classes of secondary metabolism: heterocyclic oxygen compounds (coumarins,
flavonoids, and anthocyanins), alkaloids and quaternary ammonium salts, cannabinoids,
essential oils, ginsenosides, and cardiac heterosides. Generally, the results
obtained with these methods are good, and in most cases they compare with those
of thin-layer chromatography.
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