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by joyj2nd 2263 days ago
"liquid chromatography, is frequently used. On a small scale this is fine, but when kilograms of material are required the process becomes unwieldy."

I did not understand this. liquid chromatography scales up quite well. There are other methods like Electorphoresis, salt precipitations etc., that don't.

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>liquid chromatography scales up quite well

Not compared to recrystallization or distillation. Try running a column on 10kg scale and get back to me.

(I worked in an o-chem lab for 2 years in undergrad, and the biggest we could do was ~20 grams at once)