Chromatography

Column Chromatography is considered one of the main techniques of separation in addition to SDS-PAGE and gel electrophoresis. This method can be useful in both a small scale as in a laboratory experiment as well as in a larger scale at the industrial level. It is also applied in different fields ranging from biology and biochemistry to microbiology and medicine. Column chromatography is also referred to as gel filtration or size exclusion chromatography among many other terminologies and it is…

The role of paper chromatography is to separate various and different chemicals/mixtures to show individual components within. If there are any individual components within the mixture, then they will move up the paper at different speeds and this will make the components separate. When carrying out the process, drawing an origin line near the bottom of one of the ends on the chromatography paper will be the starting point of the mixtures that you are trying to separate when they move up the…

Methods Column chromatography was set up using a 60 ml syringe clamped to a ring stand. The syringe was plugged using a small amount of cotton. An Erlenmeyer flask was placed underneath the column to collect any excess material. Eleven 20 ml vials were labeled numbers 1 through 11. Silica gel was measured to 42 ml using a graduated cylinder and then moved into a 150 ml beaker. A slurry was created by adding 50 ml of hexane to the beaker containing the silica gel. The slurry was stirred for…

Introduction Thin-layer chromatography, otherwise referred to as TLC, is a fast and inexpensive way to determine the amount of components in a solution or to identify an unknown compound. The principal behind TLC is when different compounds are placed on silica gel or alumina, (stationary phases) they will travel different distances when eluted with the proper solvent. According to ChemistryGuide, this is because the more polar compound has a stronger interaction with the silica gel due to its…

this purpose is called chromatography. 1 There are many different types of chromatography, including gas-liquid, paper, column and so on. 1 Chromatography differentiates by allowing the differences in polarity, vapor pressure, solubility and so on of different substances to be observed. 1 In our endeavor, we will be using specific types of chromatography, termed Thin-Layer Chromatography (TLC) and column chromatography. Essentially, TLC is an adsorption aspect of chromatography that uses a polar…

acids.2 Chromatography is the process of separating a mixture, and has many different applications throughout the world. There are a variety of ways to conduct chromatography including column chromatography, paper chromatography, and thin layer chromatography. The particular experiment conducted and discussed is paper chromatography. This experiment will use chromatography to test and identify unknown pen inks based on tests done on known pen inks. Understanding the history of chromatography can…

Part A Gas Chromatography What is it? Gas chromatography is a variation of chromatography used in analytical chemistry for separating and analysing components that can be vaporised without decomposition ("Gas Chromatography", 2016). This technique involves using a gas as the mobile phase. There are two types of gas chromatography: • Gas-solid chromatography – separates substances on the basis of their different strengths of adsorption on the solid • Gas-liquid chromatography – separates…

Isolation of Component Via Extraction Objective: Separation of organic acid from a neutral compound using liquid/liquid extraction. Experimental: Similar to the “Thin Layer Chromatography” experiment, a TLC plate was ran with 2 ml of EtOAc and 8 mL of hexane in the jar. The Rf value was calculated using the formula located in the data for all the TLC plate. The mixed compound that was dotted on the TLC plate had 0.300 g of the impure benzoic acid and 10 mL of dichloromethane. A 50 mL flask…

Gas chromatography (GC) is a chromatography technique where the separation of individual components (called analytes) from a sample relies on their differing distribution between the mobile phase and a stationary phase. The mobile phase is what carries the analyte (components being analysed) through the stationary phase and in GC, it is an inert gas, (usually helium or nitrogen). The gas must be inert so it will not react with the samples to give a false reading. The stationary phase is the…

polarity of substances using the principles of chromatography. Three substances were tested using a thin layer chromatography. The column chromatography tested a mixture of two substance which were separated as a result of the chromatography. The results for both the thin layer and column chromatography supported the hypothesis. Therefore, chromatography is an effective tool that can be used to determine relative polarities. INTRODUCTION: Chromatography is a laboratory procedure that operates…