Zur Dünnschicht-Chromatographie von zinnorganischen Verbindungen

With the aid of thinlayer chromatography mixtures of tetraorganotin compounds containing no polar groups can be separated and identified if they differ in the number of phenyl groups per molecule or in the nature of their aliphatic residues (alkyl or allyl). For analytical purposes mixtures of 80% hexane and 20% benzene by volume are suitable as mobile phase. For preparative purposes (requiring multiple development) pure hexane or hexane containing 10 to 20% benzene by volume are best suited as mobile phase, where the amount of hexane depends on the problem of separation at hand. The R_f values of the mobile phases vary linearly with the number of the phenyl groups x and decrease with increasing x. The straight lines connecting the R_f values cross at x=4 (tetraphenyltin). Dithizone and silver nitrate are suitable spray reagents for organotin compounds. By spraying the plates with dithizone tetra-, tri-, and di-organotin compounds can be immediately distinguished on the basis of the ensuing colourations. With silver nitrate allyltin compounds and polystannanes can be distinguished from alkyltin compounds; tetra-phenyltin is not coloured by this reagent.