Ethyl formate has a shift of about 161 ppm for the carbonyl carbon, which is about the same as methyl formate. Your shift is within a few ppm of protonated methyl formate, but that seems unlikely.
Ethyl formate has a shift of about 161 ppm for the carbonyl carbon, which is about the same as methyl formate. Your shift is within a few ppm of protonated methyl formate, but that seems unlikely.
What scale did you do the reaction on? Was 13C crude or clean? Citronellal should be cheap, yes?
FYI, Hans Reich is rarely wrong about NMR.
What scale did you do the reaction on? Was 13C crude or clean? Citronellal should be cheap, yes?
FYI, Hans Reich is rarely wrong about NMR.
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Have a ton of it. Only doing it on like 10 grams now for trial reactions.
I have decided it is not the formate from Bayer-Villager. There is no C13 shift at like 60-70 for the C-O.
Have a ton of it. Only doing it on like 10 grams now for trial reactions.
I have decided it is not the formate from Bayer-Villager. There is no C13 shift at like 60-70 for the C-O.
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