Abstract
Performance of two chromatographic techniques, high-speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC) and conventional Sephadex LH-20 gel column chromatography (GLC), was compared in the separation of theaflavins from the extract of black tea leaves. The HSCCC run was carried out with a two-phase solvent system composed of hexane/ethyl acetate/methanol/water (1:3:1:6, v/v) by eluting the lower aqueous phase at 2 mL/min at 800 rpm where 200 mg of the sample was resolved into three peaks corresponding to theaflavin, theaflavin-3,3'-gallate, and a mixture of theaflavin-3-gallate and theaflavin-3'-gallate in 4.1 hrs. Although, Sephadex column chromatography yielded a similar separation for 100 mg of the same sample, it required a much longer elution time of 21 hrs.
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