Classic TLC silica plates, GF254 (Silica gel with gypsum as binding agent, fluorescence background at 254nm), 60 Å pore size.

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What's ideal is that these plates have neutral silica (pH 6-7) instead of the more common acidic silica (pH=5) for TLC silica plates. The neutral silica make the plates compatible with running compounds with an amino group even without the need of adding triethylamine.
At the same time non-amino compounds behave the same as on acidic TLC plates.

In listing photo 5 (or below), highly similar diethyl maleate and dimethyl maleate are spotted on the plates and eluted with different ratios of ethyl acetate : hexanes, showing a gradual change of Rf.

Rf value change over solvent polarity, using 6.5cm plates

120 plates per box, 2.5 cm x 6.5 cm size.


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