Comparison of separation conditions for pressurized and unpressurized simultaneous chromatography and electrophoresis employing nearest neighbor distance descriptors and relative spot capacities

Thin-layer chromatography and electrophoresis, with their long histories of simple and effective characterization of chemical mixtures, have motivated an effort to combine these techniques. Simultaneous chromatography and electrophoresis (SCE) utilizes an electric field orthogonal to capillary action or pressure flow to achieve a single-step two-dimensional separation. In this work, plate conditioning and pressurized simultaneous chromatography and electrophoresis (pSCE) are introduced. These improvements reduce separation times and concurrently increase or maintain separation quality as described by visual comparisons, nearest neighbor distance descriptors, and relative spot capacities.