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Which properties of solvents are useful for solvent extraction?
(a)Solvent should have a favourable temperature coefficient
(b)The solvent should be well miscible with the liquid to be extracted.
(c)The solvent should be miscible with the other components(impurities) of the mixture.
(d)The boiling point of the solvent should be high

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Important Questions on Organic Chemistry- Some Basic Principles and Techniques
EASY
Given below are two statements:
Statement-I: Retardation factor can be measured in meter/centimetre.
Statement-II: value of a compound remains constant in all solvents.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

MEDIUM
A flask contains a mixture of isohexane and -methylpentane. One of the liquids boils at while the other boils at What is the best way to separate the two liquids and which one will be distilled out first?

EASY
Given below are two statements:
Statement : A mixture of chloroform and aniline can be separated by simple distillation.
Statement : When separating aniline from a mixture of aniline and water by steam distillation aniline boils below its boiling point.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

MEDIUM
The most suitable method of separation of mixture of ortho and para-nitrophenol is:

EASY
The distillation technique most suited for separating glycerol from spent - lye in the soap industry is:

EASY
The species that exhibits the highest value in a thin layer chromatogram using a nonpolar solvent on a silica gel plate is:

EASY
Paper chromatography is an example of

EASY
Which of the following processes for refining of metals involves a principle of selective adsorption of the components from a mixture.

EASY
The principle of column chromatography is:

EASY
In chromatography, which of the following statements is incorrect for ?

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A chromatography column, packed with silica gel as stationary phase, was used to separate a mixture of compounds consisting of benzanilide aniline and acetophenone. When the column is eluted with a mixture of solvents, hexane:ethyl acetate , the sequence of obtained compounds is:

MEDIUM
The elution sequence of a mixture of compounds containing chlorobenzene, anthracene and -cresol developed from an alumina column using a solvent system of progressively increasing polarity is

EASY
Glycerol is separated in soap industries by :

EASY
The correct match between Item I and Item II is:
Item I | Item II |
Benzaldehyde | Mobile phase |
Alumina | Adsorbent |
Acetonitrile | Adsorbate |

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A liquid compound (x) can be purified by steam distillation only if it is

EASY
Which of the following mixtures can be separated by simple distillation?

EASY
Aniline is insoluble in water and possesses a vapour pressure of at . It can be conveniently purified by

HARD
A solution of chloroaniline, chlorophenol, and chlorobenzoic acid in ethyl acetate was extracted initially with a saturated solution of to give fraction . The leftover organic phase was extracted with a dilute solution to give a fraction . The final organic layer was labelled as a fraction . Fractions and contain respectively:

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Which of the following statements is not true about partition chromatography?

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If Dichloromethane (DCM) and water are used for differential extraction, which one of the following statements is correct?

