“…Information theory has been called on to evaluate the identification procedures of chromatographic analysis (395), and the general problem of correlating chemical structure with chromatographic behavior has been analyzed (615,1467). A new parameter, the isomer constant, Ra, permits the calculation of Rf values for isomers in both paper and thin-layer chromatograms (200). Correlation data for RF and Rm values have been published for a variety of compounds (463,709), including various phenols (106, 578-580,623, 994-996, 1321, 1464), monohaloanthraquinones (389), acridine derivatives (1678), and quaternary bases (124,1637).…”