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Presumably you are talking about in a chromatography column with alumina in it. The fluorenone is polar and subsequently creates a bond with the polar alumina. However, as Chlorine is more electronegative then the oxygens on alumina, the fluorenone wants to hang out and be friends with the methylene chloride even more than alumina, so the fluorenone and the methylene chloride hold hands and take a romantic walk down the column into your solution.

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Q: Why does fluorenone travel in methylene chloride?
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