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predict witch will have the highest rf value and witch will have the lowest out of naphthalene nonpolar butyric acid polar and phenyl acetate slightly polor when developed on a silica gel TLC plate using toluene as the mobile phase
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Silica gel plaques for TLC represent a polar surface with which the analyzed compounds will interact. This polar phase will interact more effectively with polar molecules, which will therefore be more strongly retained when the mobile phase (in this case, toluene) advances through the silica plaque. As they are more strongly retained, they won't be able to advance with the solvent as much as molecules with lower polarity, which means that the higher the polarity of the molecule, the lower its advance (represented by Rf). Consequently, in our mixture, naphthalene will have the highest Rf, since it is the least polar molecule and butyric acid will have the lowest Rf, since it is the most polar one.

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