Separation of Amino Acids, Dyes, and Pigments Using Novel Pressurized Circular TLC Assembly for Secure Medical Imaging Applications

Table 4

Separation of pigments from the extract of spinach leaves by both methods.

Systems used for separation	Time taken (min)	Rf values obtained for different pigments present in the spinach extract
		Chlorophyll a	Chlorophyll b	Xanthophyll	Carotenoid	Pheophytin
Classical TLC	18	0.52	0.42	0.17	0.98	0.59
PC-TLC	5	0.52	0.43	0.18	0.97	0.60