explain how to calculate an rf value and what that information can tell you about the success of your reaction. was your guaifenesin synthesis successful?

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It is the ratio of the distance traveled by a compound in a mobile phase compared with the distance traveled by the front of the mobile phase itself

What is Rf Value?

  • Rf value is the ratio of the solute's distance travelled to the solvent's distance travelled.

Rf = migration distance of substance / migration distance of solvent front

  • The word comes from chromatography when it was discovered that a given component will always travel the same distance in a given solvent under same conditions
  • If we get 1 Rf value, it means the reaction is successful.
  • But if we get 2 or more Rf values, then it means there is some impurity or side products or maybe some reactants are present in the final product.

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