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Beilstein J Org Chem. 2016 Nov 08;12:2351-2357. doi: 10.3762/bjoc.12.228. eCollection 2016.

The weight of flash chromatography: A tool to predict its mass intensity from thin-layer chromatography.

Beilstein journal of organic chemistry

Freddy Pessel, Jacques Augé, Isabelle Billault, Marie-Christine Scherrmann

Affiliations

  1. Université Paris Sud, ICMMO, UMR CNRS 8182, Bâtiment 420, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
  2. Université de Cergy-Pontoise, LCB, EA 4505, 5 mail Gay-Lussac, Neuville sur Oise, 95031 Cergy-Pontoise, France.

PMID: 28144302 PMCID: PMC5238533 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.12.228

Abstract

Purification by flash chromatography strongly impacts the greenness of a process. Unfortunately, due to the lack of the relevant literature data, very often this impact cannot be assessed thus preventing the comparison of the environmental factors affecting the syntheses. We developed a simple mathematical approach to evaluate the minimum mass intensity of flash chromatography from the retention factor values determined by thin-layer chromatography.

Keywords: environmental factor; flash chromatography; green metrics; mass intensity; purification

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