There are many thousand kinds of proteins with different properties and functions in a cell. To study a protein, one has to obtain the highly purified intact form of the protein. A major protein is not so difficult to be purified while a minor one may need many purification steps and high skills on the techniques. This chapter describes the principles underlying techniques for separation and pu...

A method for separation and purification of plant hormones auxin and abscisic acid based on mixed mode reversed-phase anion-exchange solid phase extraction and two-dimensional HPLC was developed. Two-dimensional HPLC in "heart cutting" mode was very efficient in the purification of these two hormones. Its purification power is high enough to allow reliable on-line quantification of both hormone...

Cyanobacteria produce a wide range of potent toxins, including hepatotoxic microcystins. HPLC methods for microcystin analysis and purification almost invariably include acetonitrile in the elution gradient mobile phase. The recent, acute, global acetonitrile shortage requires that adequate methods are available for microcystin analysis and purification without the need for acetonitrile. Here w...

In this work a novel heterojunction catalyst have been synthesized and employed as a highly efficient catalyst for one-pot synthesis of substituted imidazoles. Analytical methods including Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Energy- dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Vibrating Sample Magnom...

Natural products provide excellent potential leads for drug development because of their chemical diversity and biological functionality. However, the productivity of discovery of new, pharmacologically active natural products has traditionally been low due to inherent difficulties and costs associated with extract dereplication, i.e., isolation, purification and structure elucidation of indivi...

The last stage in the design process for a chemical product is its manufacture, where the purification has an important role. Short-path evaporation is a safe method suitable for separation and purification of thermally unstable materials. In this work the process modelling and a systematic strategy of solution is presented for a short-path evaporator to obtain the desired product specification...