A Kofler bench, or Kofler heating bar; Kofler hot bar; Kofler hot bench, in German, Kofler-Heizbank,[1] is a metal strip with a temperature gradient (range room temperature to 300°C). Any substance can be placed on a section of the strip revealing its thermal behaviour at the temperature at that point.[2] The gradient is engineered to be approximately linear.[3]
This melting-point apparatus for use with a microscope was developed by the Austrian pharmacognosist Ludwig Kofler (30 November 1891 Dornbirn - 23 August 1951 Innsbruck) and his wife mineralogist Adelheid Kofler. In 1936, the Koflers and Mayrhofer published their "Mikroskopische Methoden in der Mikrochemie" [Kofler, L., A. Kofler and Mayrhofer, A. (1936)], Kofler and Kofler published their "Thermomikromethoden" [Kofler L., and A. Kofler (1954)] in 1954.[4][5] The integration of microscope and Kofler bench is known as the Kofler hot stage microscope.[6]
Kofler, his wife Adelheid, and their colleague, Maria Kuhnert-Brandstätter, investigated numerous organic molecules, and published some 250 papers describing their work.[7]
Thermomicroscopy, incepted by Ludwig and Adelheid Kofler and developed further by Maria Kuhnert-Brandstätter (1919–2011) and Walter C. McCrone used the technique for studying the phases of solid drug substances.
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References[edit]
- ^ Neuberg, Bill (24 April 2018). "Kofler hot bench: repair of a class melting point determination apparatus". The McCrone Group.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-07. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "The Kofler Hot Bench: Repair of a Classic Melting Point Determination Apparatus". 24 April 2018.
- ^ "The Literature of Classical Microchemistry, Spot Tests, and Chemical Microscopy". 2006-02-26.
- ^ History of Pharmacy
- ^ Kumar, Arun; Singh, Pritam; Nanda, Arun (2020). "Hot stage microscopy and its applications in pharmaceutical characterization". Applied Microscopy. 50 (1): 12. doi:10.1186/s42649-020-00032-9. ISSN 2287-4445. PMC 7818341. PMID 33580349. S2CID 219692412.
- ^ "In Journal: Crystal Growth & Design : Search".
Further reading[edit]
- Vitez, I (1998). "The evolution of hot-stage microscopy to aid solid-state characterizations of pharmaceutical solids". Thermochimica Acta. 324 (1–2): 187–196. doi:10.1016/S0040-6031(98)00535-8.