Chemistry · Metallurgy

JEE Main 2024 — 6 April, Shift 2 — Question 71

The correct statements among the following, for a "chromatography" purification method is:

Option A:
Organic compounds run faster than solvent in the thin layer chromatographic plate.
Option B:
Non-polar compounds are retained at top and polar compounds come down in column chromatography.
Option C:
$R_{f}$ of a polar compound is smaller than that of a non-polar compound
Correct
Option D:
$R_{f}$ is an integral value.

Answer: C

Non polar compounds are having higher value of $\mathrm{R}_{\mathrm{f}}$ than polar compound.

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