[Sona]

I have attached a slide here. It containd an IR spectra. I need to deduce the structure.
I have done it in the following way:
Broad 2571-3300 cm-1 for carboxylyc OH
1717cm-1 for carboxylic CO
Hence carboxylic functionality is confirmed.
For the rest, 1265cm-1 is it suggesting CH2Br?
I read that methylene protons ahow a characteristic absorption at about 1465cm-1
So here the peak at 1432cm-1 may indicate methylene.
Thus I am thinking that the structure may be BrCH2CH2CO2H, i.e. 3bromopropanoic acid.
Am I correct?

[Babcock_Hall]

There are others with greater expertise in IR than I have, but bear in mind that there is a C-O single bond in a carboxylic acid to consider.

[Sona]

C-O stretching generally occurs at 1320 - 1210 cm-1, at a medium intensity. Then which one here can be for C-O single bond? 1395 and 1432 cm-1 can they be assigned for C-O? because they are of medium intensity. 1265 is high, 1342 is low in intensity, so I think they are not for C-O.
Then the preoblem is how to know the position of Br in the chain. Is it at the terminal C or at the alpha C? I cannot understand this.

[Sona]

at 1342cm-1 there is a small peak. Is it suggesting characteristic methyle bending? Then the structure should be 2-bromo.