polymerian
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Help in an analysis
I prepared an ionic liquid, it is quaternary ammonium salt. I want to check its structure through the well known
analysis methods.
the reaction is below
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DDTea
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What analytical methods do you have available to use? These days, the standard for organic structure determination is NMR. 1-H NMR should be a good
start, and it should be relatively easy to interpret for this molecule.
Everything else (e.g., UV/Vis, FTIR, MS) is simply for confirmation. You will want to do as many of them as possible--as always, it's good to
"overdetermine" your structure. It's likely that you have a mixture of diastereomers, so you may want to use something like circular dichroism.
Also, before doing any kind of analysis/spectroscopy on your product, you will want to make sure that its pure. So, start by purifying it.
EDIT: Wait, do you have a reference for this reaction?? Your starting material is a lactam, not an amine. Unless I'm mistaken, it won't react as you
have shown here.
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Yeah. I needed to look at it again today to realize the attempt to use an amide as a nucleophile. Also, Cl is a relatively crummy leaving group, as
far as they go. I was commenting on the double post. These two threads need to be merged.
Cheers,
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Nicodem
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Quote: Originally posted by polymerian  | I prepared an ionic liquid, it is quaternary ammonium salt. I want to check its structure through the well known analysis methods.
the reaction is below |
So, you got an unlikely product via an impossible reaction and with nonexistent analytical evidence and don't even bother providing a reference.
Congratulations!
Please open referenceless and beginner's threads only in the proper section where I'm moving this.
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