Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[1] [2] In physical and analytical chemistry, infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy) is a technique used to identify chemical compounds based on the way infrared radiation is absorbed by the compound. The absorptions in this range do not apply only to bonds in organic molecules.
If a spectrum of an unknown chemical compound is available, a reverse search can be carried out by entering the values of the chemical shift, frequency or mass of the peaks in the NMR, FT-IR or EI-MS spectrum respectively. This type of search affords all the chemical compounds in the database that have the entered spectral characteristics. [6]
The mass spectrum of methylbromide has two prominent peaks of equal intensity at m/z 94 (M) and 96 (M+2) and then two more at 79 and 81 belonging to the bromine fragment. Even when compounds only contain elements with less intense isotope peaks ( carbon or oxygen ), the distribution of these peaks can be used to assign the spectrum to the ...
Methyl benzoate can be isolated from the freshwater fern Salvinia molesta. [3] It is one of many compounds that is attractive to males of various species of orchid bees, which apparently gather the chemical to synthesize pheromones; it is commonly used as bait to attract and collect these bees for study.
The method or technique of infrared spectroscopy is conducted with an instrument called an infrared spectrometer (or spectrophotometer) which produces an infrared spectrum. An IR spectrum can be visualized in a graph of infrared light absorbance (or transmittance ) on the vertical axis vs. frequency , wavenumber or wavelength on the horizontal ...
Electron ionization mass spectrum of toluene. Note parent peak corresponding to molecular mass M = 92 (C 7 H 8 + ) and highest peak at M-1 = 91 (C 7 H 7 + , quasi-stable tropylium cation). A mass spectrum is a histogram plot of intensity vs. mass-to-charge ratio ( m/z ) in a chemical sample, [ 1 ] usually acquired using an instrument called a ...
4-Methyl-2-pentanol (IUPAC name: 4-methylpentan-2-ol) or methyl isobutyl carbinol (MIBC) is an organic chemical compound used primarily as a frother in mineral flotation and in the production of lubricant oil additives such as Zinc dithiophosphate. [4]
By applying intense tunable IR lasers, like IR-OPOs or IR free electron lasers, the wavelength dependence of the IRMPD yield can be studied. [5] [6] This infrared photodissociation spectroscopy allows for the measurement of vibrational spectra of (unstable) species that can only be prepared in the gas phase. Such species include molecular ions ...