Chromatography of lipids on commercial silica gel loaded filter paper

Abstract

Commercial silica gel loaded filter paper has been found to give good separations of neutral lipids and phospholipids. Unidimensional or two-dimensional chromatography can be used. Rat liver lipids and C14-algae lipids were studied. An advantage over thin-layer chromatography is that several spot tests can be applied on the same chromatogram.

Keywords

• silica gel
• paper chromatography
• neutral lipids
• phospholipids
• silica gel loaded paper