Revisiting the Separation of Ferrocene and Acetylferrocene by Adsorption Chromatography: Adding a Third Component

Rebecca Hwa and Haim Weizman
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0303
J. Chem. Educ., 2007, 84 (9), p 1497
DOI: 10.1021/ed084p1497
Publication Date (Web): September 1, 2007

Abstract

The separation of ferrocene and acetylferrocene by column chromatography is a widely used experiment in undergraduate organic labs. The experiment was expanded into a three-component mixture to increase the challenge of the experiment and to make TLC analysis necessary.

Keywords (Audience):

Second-Year Undergraduate

Keywords (Domain):

Laboratory Instruction

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives

Keywords (Subject):

Chromatography

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