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The carbon-13 NMR for 1,1,1-trichloroethane
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Md. Nure Alam
The carbon-13 NMR for 1,1,1-trichloroethane
I fully agree with your assessment and assume that this is a mistake in the book. I wonder what exactly the authors suggested as spectroscopic verification. I personally would suggest using 1H-NMR as a verification method. In 1,1,1-trichloroethane, only one hydrogen peak should be observed as the three protons of a methyl group are always homotopic. In 1,1,2-trichloroethane, two signals in a $1:2$ ratio should be observed as a triplet and dublet, respectively. Depending on what the book suggests as verification, it should be easy to confirm the nomenclature error.
I fully agree with your assessment and assume that this is a mistake in the book. I wonder what exactly the authors suggested as spectroscopic verification. I personally would suggest using 1H-NMR as a verification method. In 1,1,1-trichloroethane, only one hydrogen peak should be observed as the three protons of a methyl group are always homotopic. In 1,1,2-trichloroethane, two signals in a $1:2$ ratio should be observed as a triplet and dublet, respectively. Depending on what the book suggests as verification, it should be easy to confirm the nomenclature error.
The authors did suggest using 1H-NMR as the method to "confirm it spectroscopically". This is what they provided as the suggested method of spectroscopic confirmation: "The second structure (1,1,2-trichloroethane) looks better but it would be easily confirmed by proton NMR as the first structure (1,1,1-trichloroethane) would have one peak only but the second would have two peaks for different CHs. The solvent is indeed the second structure 1,1,2-trichloroethane."More
I fully agree with your assessment and assume that this is a mistake in the book. I wonder what exactly the authors suggested as spectroscopic verification. I personally would suggest using 1H-NMR as a verification method. In 1,1,1-trichloroethane, only one hydrogen peak should be observed as the three protons of a methyl group are always homotopic. In 1,1,2-trichloroethane, two signals in a $1:2$ ratio should be observed as a triplet and dublet, respectively. Depending on what the book suggests as verification, it should be easy to confirm the nomenclature error.
I fully agree with your assessment and assume that this is a mistake in the book. I wonder what exactly the authors suggested as spectroscopic verification. I personally would suggest using 1H-NMR as a verification method. In 1,1,1-trichloroethane, only one hydrogen peak should be observed as the three protons of a methyl group are always homotopic. In 1,1,2-trichloroethane, two signals in a $1:2$ ratio should be observed as a triplet and dublet, respectively. Depending on what the book suggests as verification, it should be easy to confirm the nomenclature error.
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