We introduce an analytical method that combines in one pot the advantages of column chromatography separation and NMR structural analysis. The separation of the NMR spectra of the components of a mixture can be achieved according to their apparent diffusion rates [James, T. L. and McDonald, G. G. (1973) J. Magn. Reson. 58, 58 -61]. We show that the separation of the spectral components, corresponding to single molecular species, can be enhanced by order of magnitudes upon addition of a typical stationary phase used in HPLC. The solid phase imbibed by the mixture for analysis is an heterogeneous ensemble, so that solidstate NMR methods (high-resolution magic angle spinning) are necessary to recover high-resolution spectra. We demonstrate applications of this combination of high-resolution magic angle spinning and NMR diffusometry on test mixtures for direct (silica gel) and inverse (C18) columns. However, many common chromatographic supports available for HPLC should be readily adaptable for use with this technique.T he challenge in the analysis of complex mixtures is 2-fold: to achieve an effective separation of the components and provide a proper structural characterization for each of them. The common solution is hyphenation, which is a sequential combination of chromatography and spectroscopic analysis such as mass or UV spectrometry. Because NMR is often the tool of choice for precise structural characterizations of organic molecules, an effort has been done to introduce NMR as a detector in hyphenated techniques (1). An alternative solution for the NMR characterization of mixture components exploits the behavior of the NMR signal of a molecule diffusing in an inhomogeneous magnetic field. In this case, the frequency of the observed target becomes time dependent, with consequent broadening of the resonance line (2). The apparent diffusion rate associated to a molecular resonance can be estimated by performing a series of experiments varying the amplitude of the inhomogeneous field and inverting the corresponding decay curve of the signal amplitude. Diffusion-ordered spectroscopy (DOSY) (3) is a particularly convenient means of displaying this information, organized in a bidimensional array with the NMR spectrum on one dimension and the apparent diffusion rate on the other one. As a collateral aspect, the DOSY display decomposes the overall NMR spectrum of a mixture into those of its components if these latter possess different molecular mobility, without previous collection of separate fractions (4-7). In optimal conditions, the diffusion experiment is capable of resolving contributions from molecules whose diffusion coefficients differ only by a few percent (8). In cases of serious signal overlapping, other methods for processing diffusion data achieve better spectral separation (9-11). We present here an analytical procedure that capitalizes on this idea, but in which the separation properties of the NMR method are enhanced by addition of a solid phase, a typical stationary phase material used for chromato...