You want to know how many different products were produced by a new reaction you have...

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You want to know how many different products were produced by anew reaction you have devised. You spot the product mixture on aTLC plate and develop it in petroleum ether and observe a singlespot at Rf 0.05.

a) Why does this experiment notconfirm that only a single product was produced in the    reaction?                   

b) What change would you make to the mobile phase togain more information about the composition of the productmixture?  

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