How would I find out what spectral bands would appear on the IR spectra for trimyristin and myristic acid?? I'm looking at their molecular structure and have no clue where to begin.. I would appreciate any help! Thanks.
2007-03-07 09:47:17 · 4 answers · asked by donna 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Myristic acid is a carboxylic acid and should show an extremely strong O-H stretching band on the far left. Also, if you are doing this in a solvest, there will be two bands, independent and hydrogen-bonded. I do not remember the difference between C=O stretching bands between acids and trimyristin ester, but I imagine that must be diagnostic.
2007-03-07 10:01:20 · answer #1 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My feeling would be that Trimyristin has the esters so that would be the place to start.
2007-03-07 09:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by Matthew L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's this great web site like a database of ir spectra and stuff, and they have myristic acid spectrum so look that up..
site:
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/name-ser.html
myristic acid spectrum:
http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C544638&Units=SI&Mask=80#IR-Spec
2007-03-07 10:04:05 · answer #3 · answered by evenflow 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the strong one closest to 1000.
2016-03-28 22:49:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋