Question

Hi. Why is sodium chloride insoluble in chloroform? Please include talk of polarity & intermolecular forces if relevant

Answer 1

Let's look at chloroform.

Answer 2

You can see by the way we've drawn the molecule that there is a net polarity, so it's not going to be non-polar.

The general rule is that like dissolves like.

Answer 3

the general rule is that, ionic salts dissolve in protic solvents like water.