A conditioning process is applied to guarantee consistency from plate to plate, lot to lot, and chemist to chemist. The user can prevent having to retest their sample or risk the compound decomposing ...

Thin-layer chromatography is a tried and true staple of an organic chemistry lab, but it can be of limited use. Compounds with similar properties and polarities often don’t separate, and chemicals ...

These bulbous bands of color are what was left after Maria-Elena Liosi tried to purify the product of her reaction on a preparatory thin-layer chromatography (TLC) plate. Like the smaller, more ...