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5C: Did you know that digitalis, one of the oldest medicines used to increase cardiac contractility, is derived from the foxglove plant? When you are in the Amazon rainforest searching for a cure for cancer in a new exotic plant, your potential miracle drug of interest is not originally pure - it must be separated from the other contaminating components. Through these tutorials you will learn how to separate and purify chemical compounds using organic chemistry lab techniques such as extraction, distillation, chromatography, and gel electrophoresis.

15435_Extractions.html

15442_Resolution_of_enantiomers.html

15434_Simple_and_fractional_distillations.html

15439_Column_chromatography.html

15438_Calculating_retention_factors_for_TLC.html

15440_Gas_chromatography.html

15441_Gel_electrophoresis.html

15436_Basics_of_chromatography.html

15437_Thin_layer_chromatography_TLC_.html