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Hitherto Mostly Disregarded Contributions to the Development of the Chromatographic Method Made by Austrian Chemists

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László Zechmeister

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In context with the history of chromatography, it is noteworthy to also mention the work of Austrian chemists. Unfortunately, they are not considered pioneers in this field, therefore, the following section is meant to pay credit to the achievements of two chemists, namely Zdenko Hans Skraup and Fritz Prior. In addition, little is known about Fritz Feigl’s contribution to the development of paper chromatography [1]. Fritz Feigl is mainly known to be the inventor of the spot test analysis, a micro-analytical method which uses only small amounts of chemicals and is therefore an economic technique. This invention is based on the works of H. Schiff, C. F. Schönbein, and F. Göppelsröder [2]. The latter two have already been mentioned in this section as forerunners of the chromatographic method. Feigl, on the other hand, contributed to the development in so far in that he also studied the influence of the capillary effect of filter paper on the detection of compounds.

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  1. 1.

    1891 in Vienna-1971 in Rio de Janeiro.

  2. 2.

    1850 in Prague-1910 in Vienna.

  3. 3.

    Skraup synthesis.

  4. 4.

    1921–1996.

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Wirth, M. (2013). Hitherto Mostly Disregarded Contributions to the Development of the Chromatographic Method Made by Austrian Chemists. In: László Zechmeister. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00642-0_3

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