Cation analysis with thin layer chromatography

Abstract

Reported here is an adaptation of thin layer chromatography to an undergraduate laboratory operation for cation analysis.

Chromatography

“…TLC is applicable to the systematic analysis of all the common cations (649,750,2051,2052) and to their quantitative determination (1828). The layers used are usually either adsorbents (250,588,1308,2278) or carriers of stationary phases, such as triisooctylamine (1261), tributyl phosphate (834,836), or bis(2-ethylhexyl)phosphate (1553), but the latter has also been used as the mobile phase (377).…”