| Abstract: | High-performance liquid chromatography using, as adsorbent, novel square tile-shaped hydroxyapatite crystals (with thicknesses of about 2 microns and diameters of 3-7 microns) has been developed. The chromatographic efficiencies of the novel hydroxyapatite packed columns are almost equal to those of the previously developed spherical hydroxyapatite packed columns; high chromatographic resolutions can be obtained by using extremely reduced column lengths of 0.5-3 cm. Since both the square and the spherical hydroxyapatite have roughly the same particle size of some micrometers, the chromatographic efficiency can be deduced to be determined mainly by the particle size rather than the particle shape. |
