Application of planar chromatographic descriptors to the prediction of physicochemical properties and biological activity of compounds

A review of applications of thin layer chromatography (TLC) in drug discovery is given. TLC is presented as a tool to determine the solutes physicochemical properties (lipophilicity, dissociation constant, water solubility) and to predict the interactions of drugs with biomembranes, blood-brain barrier permeability, plasma protein binding, volume of distribution, gastric and skin absorption. Results of modeling based on thin layer...