title: Plant drug analysis by planar chromatography.
abstract: Optimal performance laminar chromatography and automated multiple development chromatography are relatively recent techniques of planar chromatography that can be applied with success in plant material analysis. Therefore, these methods are used to study plant extracts and constituents belonging to different chemical classes of secondary metabolism: heterocyclic oxygen compounds (coumarins, flavonoids, and anthocyanins), alkaloids and quaternary ammonium salts, cannabinoids, essential oils, ginsenosides, and cardiac heterosides. Generally, the results obtained with these methods are good, and in most cases they compare with those of thin-layer chromatography.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie, Faculté de Pharmacie, 31, Avenue Monge, 37200-Tours, France.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Galand
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pothier
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Viel
mesh_terms: D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer / Q000379:methods*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000032:analysis*; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000032:analysis*; D010944:Plants / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D010936:Plant Extracts