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Unknown substance
« on: August 20, 2011, 10:44:49 AM »
Hello!
Help me please to define substance!

Optically active substance Z which has structure C5H10O, decolours a bromine solution in CCl4. At restoration on the catalyst it attaches 1 moth of hydrogen and turns to optically active substance Y which has structure C5H12O. At reaction Y with SOCl2 forms optically inactive substance X. HNMR and IR for Z:

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Re: Unknown substance
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2011, 11:55:55 AM »
Hello!
Help me please to define substance!

Optically active substance Z which has structure C5H10O, decolours a bromine solution in CCl4. At restoration on the catalyst it attaches 1 moth of hydrogen and turns to optically active substance Y which has structure C5H12O. At reaction Y with SOCl2 forms optically inactive substance X. HNMR and IR for Z:

Should be obvious from the spectral date, what is the broad IR band centered at 3400CM-1?
What is the NMR signal at 5.5-5.6ppm? And the signal at 4.25 (by the way, what is the multiplicity of this signal?)
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Re: Unknown substance
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2011, 12:20:45 PM »
I think that the signal in the field of 3500 Sm-1 speaks to us about hydroxyl group
NMR spectrum has been made on the bad emulator with the bad permission that's why it is difficult to discuss about multiplicity of signals.
5.5-5.6 - double doublet
and I have forgotten to tell that solvent CDCl3

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Re: Unknown substance
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2011, 12:27:16 PM »
by the way, I have two variants:

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Re: Unknown substance
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2011, 12:35:58 PM »
I think you might be able to make a guess between 12 and 13 using the adjacency rules. I understand that if you could see the methyl group splittings, it would make it easy, but there is considerable splitting that you can see in the alkene region. If needed, look up what those patterns look like in authentic compounds in SDBS database.
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Re: Unknown substance
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2011, 06:14:57 AM »
I think none of them (nor 12, nor 13) are the correct molecule.

My proposal is Pent-2-en-1-ol.


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Re: Unknown substance
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2011, 10:06:31 AM »
My proposal is Pent-2-en-1-ol.
This can't be an optically active compound. It means rrr is right and I'd guess it's rather an enantiomer of E isomer.

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