You and another student were each given an unknown compound. Both samples contained colorless material. You each used the same brand of commercially prepared TLC plate and developed the plates using the same solvent. Each of you obtained a single spot of Rf = 0.75. Were the two samples necessarily the same substance? How could you prove unambiguously that they were ily identical using TLC?

You and another student were each given an unknown compound. Both samples contained colorless material. You each used the same brand of commercially prepared TLC plate and developed the plates using the same solvent. Each of you obtained a single spot of Rf = 0.75. Were the two samples necessarily the same substance? How could you prove unambiguously that they were ily identical using TLC?

EBK A SMALL SCALE APPROACH TO ORGANIC L

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Chapter89: Thin-layer Chromatography

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