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Advanced Column
chromatography
(GC)
Principle
 Gas chromatography is a process of separating volatile substances
of a mixture by using gaseous mobile phase.”

 A sample being vaporized and injected onto the chromatographic


column then transported through the column by the flow of inert,
gaseous mobile phase.

 Two major types:

• Gas-solid chromatography; GSC (adsorption mechanism).

• Gas-liquid chromatography; GLC (partition mechanism).


GC
Components:
Instrumentation
 Gas cylinder/tank is fitted with a flow controller to ensure a constant flow rate
of mobile phase to the column.
- Carrier gas may be: He (common), N2, H2, Argon
 Sample injection port

- Micro syringe is used for sampling or Automatic injectors.


 Column (inside oven)
- The sample gets vaporized and flows into column by the carrier gas.
 Detector
- Thermal conductivity (TCD)
- Electron capture detector (ECD)
- Flame ionization detector (FID)
Derivetization in GC
Definition:

Chemical modification produce new compound which has properties that


are suitable for analysis in GC.

Importance:

1-Indirect way to derive the compounds to be volatile and stable.

2-Increase detectability & sensitivity specially in case of Electron


capture detector(ECD).
Types of derivetization
1- Silylation: Si(CH3)3
It is the most prevalent method used to increases volatility of
compounds.

2- Alkylation:
Used to protect certain function groups in compounds then further
derivetization can be made.

3- Acylation: Acyl-halide
Commonly used to add fluorinated groups (ECD).
Chromatogram
net result of separation might be :

1) Spots in case of TLC and PC.

2) Zones or Bands in case of classical columns.

3) peaks of chart in case of advanced devises such as


GC and HPLC.

The series of (spots, zones, bands or peaks) appear on


the (TLC, PC, Column or chart) after
(development/Elution) in case of (Planner or
columner) chromatography.
Experiment 4
Using dragendorffꞌs reagent as a specific reagent
for detection of colorless alkaloids

Atropine, brucine & papaverine.

St. phase: silica gel (TLC)

M. phase: CHCl3:EtOH(85%:15%)
1- TLC preparation
2- Sample application (spotting)

Atropine

Sample brucine

Papaverine
2- Development.

3- Detection(Visualization) of the separated spots.


5- Calculation of Rf value :
Rf = distance traveled by the sample spot /
distance traveled by m. phase front

6 - Comment

Unk A B P

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