“…By using supercritical fluids with low viscosity and high diffusivity, such as supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO 2 ), as mobile phase, SFC exhibits some interesting features [12], such as high separation efficiency, high flow-rates and thus reduced analysis times. Beside the successful achievements in chiral separations, SFC has also showed great potential in the separation and isolation of active components in TCMs and natural products, such as lipids [13], vitamins [14], ginkgolides [15], triterpenoids [16], regioisomeric spirostanol saponin diastereomers [17]. However, very few applications have been focused on the separation of TSs using SFC [18,19].…”