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|July 16-31, 2016
Akshay Charegaonkar, Director, Anchrom Enterprises India, in an interaction with Express Pharma, talks about HPTLC and its benefits
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What is HPTLC?
The full form of HPTLC is High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography. It’s an instrumental version of Thin Layer Chromatography which is in practice since 1950s and is used for chemical analysis.
What is unique about HPTLC?
HPTLC produces photographs co-relating to the chemical composition of organic samples. So it is the only ‘visible chromatography.’ It accounts for 100 per cent of the sample, a requirement of cGLP. The results can be evaluated even by a layman. HPTLC analyses dozens of samples simultaneously, quickly and at a low cost. There are numerous other unique features.
Why is HPTLC in news today?
HPTLC has now been declared the official US and European technique for most fundamental test of identification of materials of botanical origin by using HPTLC fingerprint. The Chinese also use the same. HPTLC is also connected to MS.
What is HPTLC fingerprint?
This story is from the July 16-31, 2016 edition of Express Pharma.
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