Question

Explanation of the separation of triphenymethanol in the Grignard experiment?

Answer 1

i am assuming your grignard reaction finished

after gignard reaction finished add the dilute HCl to the reaction mixture to hydrlyse the O-Mgbr bond

reaction solvent is ether after addition of dilute HCl you will clearly see two layers

top layer is ether layer, bottom layer is aq layer (means dil HCl)

triphenyl methanol is in ether layer

remaining things are in water layer

separate both layers using separating funnel

then extract the water layer using fresh ether two times

combine all the ether layers and then wash with water once

the resultent ether was dried over anhydrous sodium sulphate

then concetrate in rotery evaparater you will get the final product