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Offline Crystal1137

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Determining Organic Compound from IR
« on: February 01, 2011, 05:40:09 PM »


How could I determine that the IR above is for cyclohexanone by looking at the graph?

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Re: Determining Organic Compound from IR
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2011, 06:25:09 PM »
At first you can notice a strong absorption caused by C=O bond in its usual range, here it'd be about 1720 cm-1. There is nothing but simple C-H aliphatic range ca. 3000 cm-1-2850 cm-1 in the spectrum. All other differences, like the absorption ranges of methyl/methylene (here you have them only)/methine groups, you can see i.e. on Wikipedia:

 :rarrow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_spectroscopy_correlation_table

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