Chromatography: History, Introduction, and Classification

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Introduction, History and Classification of Chromatography Introduction Chromatography has been developed over the past century and has an important contribution in many areas of modern science. However the main original work of M.S.Tswett was published in a book Chromatographic Adsorption Analysis. Chromatography is a method to distinguish between organic and inorganic compounds so that they can be analyzed and examined. By performing analysis of a compound, a scientist can figure out what makes up the compound. Chromatography related techniques have been used for centuries to separate materials such as colorants extracted from plants. However, Chromatography was first developed in 1900 by Russian scientist Michael Tswett. He continued …show more content…

Chromatographic process occurs due to differences in the distribution constants of individual sample components. It is the science which studies the separation of a mixture of molecules based on differences in their structure or composition. History of …show more content…

There are a number of examples of works done before the twentieth century in which experiments were conducted. However, Michael Tswett used column liquid chromatography in which the stationary phase was a solid adsorbent packed in a glass column and the mobile phase was a liquid. He conducted experiments on extracts of chlorophyll in gasoline oil over 100 adsorbents. Most of these adsorbents are now no more important. Interestingly, the list of the inclusion of materials such as silica, alumina, carbon, calcium carbonate, magnesia and sucrose are still in use. He also confirmed the identity of the fractions obtained by the spectrophotometry at different wavelengths thus anticipating the most common mode for in liquid chromatography. In 1910 Tswett obtained his Doctrate degree and his doctoral research paper was published as a monogram which once again demonstrated his ideas for further development and improvement. That monogram marked the end of his chromatographic work. This is not surprising, because he was a botanist and chromatography is only a means and not an end. Chromatographic techniques had been ignored until 1930. One of the few exceptions was the work of an American L.S. Palmer, who in 1930 published his work for the description of the separation af plant and other dairy pigments. There are several reasons for the lack of interest in chromatography , for the moment, the main thing is that it

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