Question
Chemistry Question on Organic Chemistry- Some Basic Principles and Techniques
The correct statements among the following, for a "chromatography" purification method is:
A
Organic compounds run faster than solvent in the thin layer chromatographic plate.
B
Non-polar compounds are retained at top and polar compounds come down in column chromatography.
C
Rf of a polar compound is smaller than that of a non-polar compound.
D
Rf is an integral value.
Answer
Rf of a polar compound is smaller than that of a non-polar compound.
Explanation
Solution
Non-polar compounds have a higher value of Rf than polar compounds in chromatography.
Thus the correct answer is Option 3.