Planta Medica International Open 2017; 4(S 01): S1-S202
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1608523
Poster Session
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Target- oriented Process design for the Identification and Isolation of Natural Products using Thin-Layer and Preparative Chromatography

M Oberle
1   Merck Life Science, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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M Sixt
2   Technical University Clausthal, Institute for Separation and Process Technology, Leibnizstrasse 15, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
,
J Strube
2   Technical University Clausthal, Institute for Separation and Process Technology, Leibnizstrasse 15, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
,
M Schulte
1   Merck Life Science, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
,
L Uhlenbrock
2   Technical University Clausthal, Institute for Separation and Process Technology, Leibnizstrasse 15, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
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Publication Date:
24 October 2017 (online)

 

Thin-Layer Chromatography as well as Preparative Chromatography on silica sorbents are workhorses in natural product identification and isolation. Nevertheless, the process development using both techniques in combination is often based on trial and error and not examined in a systematical way. Only a few publications deal with the selection of chromatographic conditions and process development [1].

We will present general rules for the development of straightforward process design. Starting with the target-based screening, selection of appropriate solvents for extraction and analytical chromatography, the transfer of separations from the TLC-plate to process chromatography columns and the further optimisation of loading and throughput on the preparative HPLC-system. The importance of using the same silica selectivities will be shown as well as the use of TLC experiments to identify highly absorptive and labile compounds, which would be creating problems in the preparative separations.

[1] Weber,P, Hamburger,M, Schafroth,N, Pottereat, O, Fitoterapia 2011; 82: 155 – 161