A supercritical fluid chromatography method for the analysis of polygl
ycerols is described. The oligoglycerols are baseline separated up to
a degree of polymerization of n = 5 and peak maxima can be seen up to
n = 10 on a SE-54 column. The higher oligoglycerols (presumably n > 20
) are eluted too; an evaluation similar to that used in size-exclusion
chromatography can be used.