Practice of Thin Layer Chromatography

This revised edition of a handbook on the basic techniques of thin layer chromatography includes material on recent methods of sample preparation and zone detection, and applications involving pharmaceuticals, as well as the fundamentals of theory, mechanisms and optimization.
The third edition of this guidebook provides all the basic applications needed to practice thin layer chromatography (TLC). New material includes the latest techniques on sample preparation and zone detection, the hybridization of TLC with high performance liquid chromatography (HPTLC) as it has been developed in the last few years, emphasis on numerous applications of HPTLC involving pharmaceuticals and drugs, plus the fundamental studies of mechanisms, theories and optimization of TLC.