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Extraction Technologies For Medicinal And Aromatic Plants - Unido

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14 QUALITY CONTROL OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS AND THEIR EXTRACTED PRODUCTS<br />

BY HPLC AND HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY<br />

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The TLC-based method of analysis and fi ngerprint development<br />

is quick and reliable, and can be used conveniently in different laboratories.<br />

Similarly, it is possible to apply this technique to other plant drugs to<br />

develop fi ngerprint profi les and also to estimate the percentage of marker<br />

substances in the crude drugs or in fi nished products.<br />

14.5 High Performance Liquid Chromatography<br />

In a period of less than 50 years, HPLC has become the most<br />

widely used analytical tool in most laboratories of the world. The technique<br />

has received great attention for innovations leading to its overall development,<br />

regarding both consumables and equipment. HPLC separations are<br />

achieved using any of the fi ve basic chromatographic modes: liquid-solid<br />

(adsorption), liquid-liquid (partition), bonded-phase (partition), ion exchange,<br />

and size exclusion chromatography. The selected mode depends on the nature<br />

and properties of the analyte. Bonded-phase chromatography, in which<br />

a stationary phase of organosilanes of varying carbon lengths is chemically<br />

bonded to silanol groups, is the most commonly used mode of separation.<br />

In liquid-liquid chromatography, the solid support (usually silica or<br />

kieselguhr) is mechanically coated with a fi lm of high boiling point organic<br />

liquid, unlike bonded-phase chromatography where non-polar hydrocarbon<br />

chains are chemically bonded to hydroxyls of the silica support. Liquid-liquid<br />

chromatography, by virtue of its mechanism, is more susceptible to changes<br />

by interaction with mobile phase than bonded-phase chromatography.<br />

A typical HPLC operation includes pumping of mobile phase at<br />

moderately high pressure through a narrow-bore column containing adsorbent.<br />

The separation of the mixture takes place in the column and separated<br />

components are detected by employing a suitable detector. As the mobile<br />

phase is being pumped at high pressures, a system is required to inject the<br />

mixture into the system without dropping the pressure and disturbing the<br />

fl ow characteristics, i.e. rate and pressure. To accomplish these requirements,<br />

an HPLC system requires a pump to push the mobile phase against<br />

high pressure, an injector to insert a solution of standard substance or test

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