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ESTIMATION of microquantities of purines by paper chromatography was first suggested by Hotchkiss1. Later, detection by photographing with an ultra-violet source has amplified the method2. Tennent et al. 3 and others have designed adaptors for the Beckman spectrophotometer to enable direct estimation of the purines from paper chromatograms. This method requires costly instrumentation, and is time-consuming unless an automatic recorder is provided.
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JOHNSTONE, B., BRINER, G. Quantitative Estimation of Purines by the Visual Scanning of Photographs of Paper Chromatograms. Nature 183, 681–682 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183681b0
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