Chemistry A-Level
Deuterated solvent
What Deuterated solvent means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Deuterated solvent
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Reference: OCR
A solvent such as CDCl₃ in which hydrogen is replaced by deuterium, so it gives no signal in the ¹H NMR region and is effectively invisible.
Topics that use Deuterated solvent
- Spectroscopy (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- base peak
- Bond vibration and absorption of IR radiation
- Carbon environment
- Carbon-13 NMR and molecular symmetry
- Carbon-13 NMR prediction
- Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
- Characteristic bond absorptions in IR
- Characteristic shifts of proton environments
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