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Title: Trying to figure out what this compound is
Post by: jimjam on August 24, 2020, 11:26:53 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/gabBKbs.jpg)
I'm going to be completely honest, i know nothing about chemistry. My friend just started a graduate program and his professor gave this to him as practice. It's not official homework or anything, but I have no way to prove that. He's been working on it for a long time, and I'm hoping someone could help me with this so I can help him with it? I also kinda just want to show him up, but that part really isn't important.

Graduate school sounds very stressful and i'm sorry to everyone who has to go through it.
Title: Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
Post by: Borek on August 25, 2020, 02:34:21 AM
Please read the forum rules (https://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=65859.0).
Title: Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
Post by: Babcock_Hall on August 25, 2020, 12:40:27 PM
Why don't you ask your friend to post here and to give his initial thoughts?  Graduate school is stressful, but it is also a wonderful time.
Title: Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
Post by: wildfyr on August 26, 2020, 04:05:34 PM
I'm no amazing expert but I figured it out in <5 minutes. Have him post here and I can help him through it.

I've taken this sort of organic spectroscopy class and these sorts of questions only get trickier with less info as the semester goes on.
Title: Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
Post by: Orcio_87 on March 07, 2021, 07:43:25 AM
@jimjam I found that this is C6H5-CO-CH2-CH2-CH3.
Title: Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
Post by: mjc123 on March 07, 2021, 11:08:54 AM
@Orcio_Dojek, welcome to the forum. It's great that you want to help people, but please read the forum rules. We don't spoon-feed answers to people who have shown no effort themselves.