Different elution profiles of carvacrol and thymol I have identified carvacrol and thymol via thin-layer-chromatography and via gas chromatography
On a normal silica plate the thymol has a higher Rf-value then carvacrol. The explanation for this would be the position of the hydroxyl-group and the difference size of the nearby methyl or isopropyl group. I think thymol should be more hydrophobic then carvacrol, explaining the less interaction with the silica gel resulting in a higher Rf-value.

The problem is, that the analysis by gas chromatography with a non-polar column shows a different elution profile. I would expect that thymol, according to the higher hydrophobicity, should have a higher retention time then carvacrol. This isn't the case. Carvacrol (27.08 min) elutes after thymol (26.51 min).
Is there any explanation I'am not aware or is my thinking simple wrong?
For gas chromatography, boiling point is one of the most important determinants of elution time.  For thin-layer chromtagraphy, that isn't true.  

The comments from @Molx and @Buttonwood on this question expound on this point quite well.

@Molx:


  Thymol has a lower boiling point (232 °C) than Carvacrol (237.7 °C, both from Wikipedia), I'd bet this is the reason because AFAIK the volatility has a more important effect on the separation than the column polarity in gas chromatography.


@Buttonwood:


  ... gas chromatography's separation is more influenced by volatility (related to boiling point) of the constituents of a mixture than their adsorption to the stationary phase. In addition -- as already stated in the original question -- the column deployed in GC was a non-polar one. Except explicitly stated differently, thin layer chromatography more often uses a polar stationary phase (silica, acid/neutral/basic alumina, for example) where different strength of adsorption is important. [...]