Saturating the atmosphere in the beaker with vapour stops the solvent from evaporating as it rises up the paper. What would you observe if you used a ballpoint pen, instead of a pencil, to mark the chromatography paper? Using a pen instead of pencil will ruin the purpose of the lab.
A pencil was used to mark the chromatogram instead of a pen because the ink of the pen also contains ions that would cause inaccurate results in the chromatogram. The cation samples are repeatedly spotted and dried on the chromatography paper to enhance the results so the colors can be visually seen later on.
The distribution of a substance between two phases, a mobile phase and a stationary phase. The mobile phase is an organic solvent and the stationary phase, a polar surface. Chromatography is a technique used to separate the components of a mixture.
Different solvents will dissolve different substances. A polar solvent water will dissolve polar substances water soluble ink in the video below. In the example we looked at with the various pens, it wasn't necessary to measure R f values because you are making a direct comparison just by looking at the chromatogram. You are making the assumption that if you have two spots in the final chromatogram which are the same color and have travelled the same distance up the paper, they are most likely the same compound.
It isn't necessarily true of course - you could have two similarly colored compounds with very similar R f values. We'll look at how you can get around that problem further down the page. In some cases, it may be possible to make the spots visible by reacting them with something which produces a colored product.
A good example of this is in chromatograms produced from amino acid mixtures. Suppose you had a mixture of amino acids and wanted to find out which particular amino acids the mixture contained. For simplicity we'll assume that you know the mixture can only possibly contain five of the common amino acids. A small drop of a solution of the mixture is placed on the base line of the paper, and similar small spots of the known amino acids are placed alongside it.
The paper is then stood in a suitable solvent and left to develop as before. In the diagram, the mixture is M, and the known amino acids are labeled 1 to 5. The position of the solvent front is marked in pencil and the chromatogram is allowed to dry and is then sprayed with a solution of ninhydrin. Ninhydrin reacts with amino acids to give colored compounds, mainly brown or purple. The left-hand diagram shows the paper after the solvent front has almost reached the top.
The spots are still invisible. The second diagram shows what it might look like after spraying with ninhydrin. There is no need to measure the R f values because you can easily compare the spots in the mixture with those of the known amino acids - both from their positions and their colors.
In this example, the mixture contains the amino acids labeled as 1, 4 and 5. And what if the mixture contained amino acids other than the ones we have used for comparison? There would be spots in the mixture which didn't match those from the known amino acids. You would have to re-run the experiment using other amino acids for comparison. Two way paper chromatography gets around the problem of separating out substances which have very similar R f values.
I'm going to go back to talking about colored compounds because it is much easier to see what is happening. You can perfectly well do this with colorless compounds - but you have to use quite a lot of imagination in the explanation of what is going on! This time a chromatogram is made starting from a single spot of mixture placed towards one end of the base line. It is stood in a solvent as before and left until the solvent front gets close to the top of the paper. In the diagram, the position of the solvent front is marked in pencil before the paper dries out.
This is labeled as SF1 - the solvent front for the first solvent. We shall be using two different solvents. If you look closely, you may be able to see that the large central spot in the chromatogram is partly blue and partly green.
Two dyes in the mixture have almost the same R f values. They could equally well, of course, both have been the same color - in which case you couldn't tell whether there was one or more dye present in that spot. It is very unlikely that the two confusing spots will have the same R f values in the second solvent as well as the first, and so the spots will move by a different amount.
The next diagram shows what might happen to the various spots on the original chromatogram. The position of the second solvent front is also marked. You wouldn't, of course, see these spots in both their original and final positions - they have moved!
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