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Why does diethyl amine produce two peaks for 1H NMR
« on: April 12, 2008, 12:16:32 PM »
Hi
   I was wondering what the specific reason is for diethyl amine producing two peaks instead of one for 1H NMR spectra is. Anyone?

 

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Re: Why does diethyl amine produce two peaks for 1H NMR
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2008, 02:54:32 PM »
Two only? Surprising.
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Re: Why does diethyl amine produce two peaks for 1H NMR
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2008, 03:18:25 PM »
The methyl and methylene protons are magnetically nonequivalent by the chemical nonequivalence criterion.  In other words, both sets of protons are not identical and thus they produce two different signals.

If they were identical, there would still be two signals, only they would overlap one another and the integration would reflect this feature.

As Borek was asking, there's not a broad singlet somewhere?  Usually heteroatoms like O or N produce broad singlets when bonded to H. 

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Re: Why does diethyl amine produce two peaks for 1H NMR
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2008, 09:54:59 PM »
There are three characteristic peaks.  What are they?

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/spectra/fnmr/FNMR000263.PDF
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