The New TLC Method for Separation and Determination of Multicomponent Mixtures of Plant Extracts

Table 4

The comparison of efficiency of ThymiOleum separation by means of two methods: isocratic elution and MGD-2D TLC. The identification of particular compounds was performed according to values given in the literature.

Isocratic elution			MGD-2D TLC
Number of band		Compound
1	0.99	Unknown	Band number
2	0.63	Carvacrol	Band number 2
3	0.61	Thymol	Band number
4	0.55	1,8-Cyneole	Band number
5	0.49	α-Terpineol	Band number 5
6	0.37	Linalool	Band number
7	0.26	p-Cymene	Band number 7
8	0.24	Borneol	Band number
9	0.11	Unknown	Band number 9
10	0.04	Unknown	Band number 10
11	0.01	Unknown	Band number