TLC
HPTLC
Separation
Good
Very good
Visualization
Good
Very good
Rapidity
High
High
Easiness
Very high
High
Robustness
Low
Good
Reproducibility
Low
Very high
Quantization
Absent
Present
Flexibility
Very good
Very good
Validation
Very low
In progress
Table 1:
Comparison between TLC and HPTLC as analytical tools for chemical determination of botanicals.