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Offline jimjam

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Trying to figure out what this compound is
« on: August 24, 2020, 11:26:53 PM »

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.

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Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2020, 02:34:21 AM »
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Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2021, 07:43:25 AM »
@jimjam I found that this is C6H5-CO-CH2-CH2-CH3.

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Re: Trying to figure out what this compound is
« Reply #5 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.

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