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‘Multiple Dipping’ Procedures in Paper Chromatography: a Specific Test for Hydroxy-proline

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MUCH industry has been devoted in recent years to methods for locating the position of components separated on paper chromatograms, and claims have been made for many reagents of greater or less specificity. We wish to report our experiences in locating compounds on paper chromatograms by the successive application of several reagents with different specificities.

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JEPSON, J., SMITH, I. ‘Multiple Dipping’ Procedures in Paper Chromatography: a Specific Test for Hydroxy-proline. Nature 172, 1100–1101 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1721100b0

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