Chemistry A-Level
C=O near 1700 cm⁻¹
What C=O near 1700 cm⁻¹ means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A strong sharp absorption near 1700 cm⁻¹, whose presence means the compound could be an aldehyde, ketone, carboxylic acid, ester, amide, or acyl chloride.
Topics that use C=O near 1700 cm⁻¹
- Infrared spectroscopy (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- absence as evidence
- below 1500 cm⁻¹
- bond vibration
- broad O–H shapes
- characteristic wavenumbers
- comparison with a database
- fingerprint region
- units of cm⁻¹
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