“…The superb resolving power of UMC is achieved by effectively increasing the length of the chromatographic support and the number of theoretical plates over which the solutes migrate. Although UMC is capable of excellent resolution of simple mixtures (10,19), the excessive time required for multiple irrigations has probably curtailed its use. In recent years, however, centrifugally accelerated chromatography (5,18,26,27) and thin-layer chromatography, TLC [for recent reviews, see (33,44) ], have been introduced as analytical tools and both of these innovations have the advantage of decreasing solvent development time. For this reason, it is now feasible to employ a larger number of solvent passes when attempting to resolve simple mixtures.…”