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DURING attempts to purify a yellow crystalline compound obtained from acetone extract of resin, Canarium strictum Roxb., which could not be purified either by recrystallization with various solvents and mixtures of solvents or by chromatography over alumina and calcium sulphate, a new method of separation of organic compounds by fractional crystallization on filter paper has been developed.
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VASISTH, R., MUTHANA, M. A New Method of Separation of Organic Compounds. Nature 172, 862–863 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172862a0
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