[AntifebrinD00D]

Hey I was given a bunch of organic unknwons to find out what their chemical identity is. Most of them were easy for me to find out however this one I have found particularly difficult and I am clueless on what it is. I know the mr is 88..  

Here is a link to the spectra: http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5918/001cyw.jpg

Thanks a lot for any help

edit- I dont quite understand what the graph in the middle shows as we have not done this in class before...

[Jorriss]

The graph in the middle is super important, it's your hydrogen 1 NMR spectrum and it tells you about the shielding and splitting of the various hydrogen nuclei in the molecule.

They're assigning problems and it hasn't been done at all? When's the assignment due?

[AntifebrinD00D]

Its 'project work' (a time-filler) now exam period is over, they sort of give us it and said hand it in for 3 weeks time. After researching the graphs. I realise the format might look something like CH3-X-CH2-CH3 for the compound..

However, im unsure if it is CH3COOCH2CH3 or CH3OCOCH2CH3 and haven't a clue on how to work out which one the compound is

[nj_bartel]

If you have peak integrations, those may be important in that determination!

[Agathiyar]

It is CH3CH2COOCH3, I might be wrong.

[discodermolide]

Hey I was given a bunch of organic unknwons to find out what their chemical identity is. Most of them were easy for me to find out however this one I have found particularly difficult and I am clueless on what it is. I know the mr is 88..  

Here is a link to the spectra: http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5918/001cyw.jpg

Thanks a lot for any help

edit- I dont quite understand what the graph in the middle shows as we have not done this in class before...

The compound is CH3CH2COOCH3, methyl propionic acid. See other comments for the NMR spectrum