Supercritica/fluid chromatography (SFC) with an open tubular column of nonpolar stationary phase separated triglycerides from crambe, meadowfoam, Euphorbia lagascae, and vernonia oils based on their molecular weight. The triglyceride compositions were consistent with the literature. SFC proved also to be a valuable tool in analyzing lipase-catalyzed transesterification reactions where lesquerella oil and estolides were among the substrates employed. Analyte molecular weights could be estimated from a retention time-(or elution density-) molecular weight calibration curve. An increase in isothermal column temperature during SFC pressure or density programming improved the resolution of high-molecular-weight (>600 Da) analytes but yielded poorer resolution for analytes of molecular weight < 200. A simultaneous pressure and temperature ramping program proved superior in enhancing resolution in several instances.Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is becoming a valuable tool in the analysis of lipids as it is replacing high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas chromatography (GC) as the analytical tool of choice for several applications. SFC can be considered a hybrid of GC and HPLC because supercritical fluids possess properties (e.g., density, viscosity, and self-diffusion coefficient) intermediate between gases and liquids. For example, separation of analytes by relative volatility, as encountered in GC, can also be achieved with SFC but at much lower elution temperatures and without derivatization. The use of lower temperatures protects analytes that are susceptible to thermal degradation, such as polyunsaturated and oxygenated lipids. With the onset of equipment that allows addition of modifiers to the supercritical fluid mobile phase, HPLC-Iike separations can be achieved by SFC, but a larger range of detectors--GC-style