SynopsisA preparative liquid-phase chromatograph w&s built for the purpose of obtaining sufficiently large quantities of very narrow fractions of different polymeric species, such as polystyrene, PVC, polybutadiene, and polyethylene. This apparatus allows the fractionation of approximately 20 g of polymer per day; the fractions so obtained have polydispersities of about 1.1 over a very wide range of molecular weights. Polydispersities of less than 1.01 were obtained after recycling of the sample.
DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PREPARATIVE CHROMATOGRAPHA preparative chromatograph can be divided into five components ( Fig. 1) which are (1) the pumping system; (2) the sample injector; (3) the columns; (4) the detector; (5) the fraction collector. We shall not describe in this paper the pumping system and the detector, which are directly based on the Waters analytical instrument.