J. Liq. Chrom. & Rel. Technol. 25, 2351-2386 (2002). The preparative layer chromatography discussed in the review has been presented to facilitate the choice of the most effective, selective, cheap, and simplest method for separation and isolation of small quantities of some mixture components. Possibilities and applications of very simple sandwich chambers and forced-flow and continuous planar chromatography are discussed. Numerous application examples are cited. The different chapters are: Introduction, general considerations (goals; methods and modes of mobile phase flow; sampling; adsorbents; sample solubility and solvents; detection; special modes of development); applications of preparative layer chromatography (alkaloids; phenolic compounds; terpenes; sterols, taxoids, guaianolides, and phthalides; lipids, fatty acids, and gangliosides; various compounds). 155 references from the last 15 years.

John Wiley and Sons, New York, N.Y. (1985). Proceedings of the "Third Biennial Symposium on TLC", Parsippany, N.J. 1982 (:). Contributions ranging from the description of new, home-made apparatus to routine applications of TLC. 395 pp

Marcel Dekker, Inc. (Chromatographic Sciences Series Volume 81) 499 p, $ 195 (1999). Fourth edition, divided into Part I - General Practices of TLC (13 chapters), and Part II - Application of TLC to different compound types (10 chapters). Update to previous editions.

B. Fried, R. Toledo (Eds): The biology of echinostomes. Springer 2009. Chapter 10. Review on TLC and HPTLC for qualitative and quantitative determination of lipids, amino acids, carbohydrates and pigments in echinostomes. the goal of this work was to better understand the chemical composition of larval and adult echinostomes and of the host tissues infected by these digeneans.

Part A: Fundamentals and techniques; Part B; Applications. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (1993) ISBN 0-4444-88404-1, Chapter "Planar chromatography" by Sz. Nyiredy (41 pages with 137 references up to 1990) including general TLC, TLC/in-situ Raman, TLC/FTIR, TLC/MS; discussion of trends in planar chromatography.

Plenary lectures of the 32nd International Congress on Medicinal Plant Research, Antwerp, July 23.-28., 1984. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1985. Review on recent progress in isolation techniques for natural products. TLC, HPTLC, PLC and centrifugal TLC of plant phenolics, alkaloids, essential oil constituents and saponins and related terpenoid glycosides. Numerous separation conditions and critical observations are reported.

TrAC 29, 209-224 (2010). The dangerous effects of cocaine on living organisms and current problems associated with its wide use and availability have led to the development of various analytical procedures. This review discusses analytical methods proposed during the past ten years for the verification of cocaine and its metabolites in biological samples. Challenges regarding sample preparation and extraction techniques are described. Different approaches using thin-layer chromatography are discussed, and especially the possibility of simultaneous determination of parent, metabolite and interfering drugs in urine samples, as well as the identification of markers for combined consumption of cocaine and alcohol.

Trends in Chromatography 6, 1-10 (2010). Review on TLC, HPTLC and other chromatographic methods for the analys of selected metabolite classes such as neutral and polar lipids, amino acids, carbohydrates, carboxylic acids, lipophilic pigments, and purine bases in estivating pulmonate snails.