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3<br />

Modified Silica-Based<br />

Packing Materials for<br />

<strong>Size</strong> <strong>Exclusion</strong><br />

<strong>Chromatography</strong><br />

Roy Eksteen* <strong>and</strong> Kelli J. Pardue<br />

Supelco, Inc.<br />

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.<br />

1 INTRODUCTION<br />

<strong>Size</strong> exclusion chromatography (SEC), gel filtration chromatography (GFC) <strong>and</strong><br />

gel permeation chromatography (GPC) are chromatographic techniques based on<br />

discrimination by differences in the size <strong>of</strong> the analytes. GFC uses an aqueous<br />

mobile phase <strong>and</strong> GPC an organic mobile phase. The general term SEC covers<br />

both uses. GFC was first applied in 1959 at the University <strong>of</strong> Uppsala by Porath<br />

<strong>and</strong> Flodin (1), who showed that proteins were separated as a function <strong>of</strong> their<br />

molecular weight on porous dextran beads because <strong>of</strong> their (partial) exclusion by<br />

the pores. Similarly, GPC was first employed in 1964 by Moore at Dow Chemical<br />

Company, who demonstrated the separation <strong>of</strong> organic soluble polymers on a<br />

column packed with a cross-linked polystyrene gel using an organic solvent as the<br />

mobile phase (2). Following their discoveries, GFC <strong>and</strong> GPC developed quickly<br />

*Current affiliation: TOSOH Bioscience, LLC, Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.<br />

© 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc.

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