Acetyl — FTIR absorption peaks and assignments
These are the characteristic FTIR wavenumbers where Acetyl tends to absorb, compiled from published literature and ranked by supporting evidence. Each assignment is traceable to a source (DOI) and cross-validated against our 130,000+ reference spectra and knowledge graph.
Backed by 8 cited sources
Characteristic FTIR peaks for Acetyl
Literature behind these assignments
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1755 cm⁻¹ confidence 0.95
“Text: 'carbonyl (C=O) stretching band at 1755 which is a characteristic peak of acetyl groups'”
Jia 等 - 2022 - Synthesis and Characterization of Corn Stover-Base DOI: 10.3390/ijms23126783 -
1735 cm⁻¹ confidence 0.95
“Explicit assignment: C=O stretching vibration at 1735 for acetyl and carboxyl groups of lipids, proteins, pectin, hemicelluloses.”
Rebufa 等 - 2021 - AComDim, a multivariate tool to highlighting impac DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-4557.2008.00218. -
1730 cm⁻¹ confidence 0.9
“Explicit assignment: 'presence of acetyl groups with a peak at 1730 cm-1'”
Ma 等 - 2021 - Moderate Vinyl Acetate Acetylation Improves the Pa DOI: 10.1002/star.202000079 -
1737 cm⁻¹ confidence 0.9
“Peak assigned to acetylation.”
Song 等 - 2020 - Acetylated Polysaccharides From Pleurotus geestera DOI: 10.3390/ijms21082810 -
1735 cm⁻¹ confidence 0.9
“Text: 'peak at 1,735 cm-1' and 'acetylation'.”
Wojeicchowski 等 - 2018 - Physicochemical, structural and thermal properties DOI: 10.1590/1678-457X.04117 -
1234 cm⁻¹ confidence 0.9
“Explicit assignment in text.”
Adebajo 等 - 2006 - Raman spectroscopic investigation of acetylation o DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2005.07.045 -
1734 cm⁻¹ confidence 0.9
“Signal at 1734 cm-1 attributable to stretching vibration of carbonyl residue of acetyl group, typical of ester function.”
Bertoli 等 - 2022 - Complexing the Marine Sesquiterpene Euplotin C by DOI: 10.3390/md20110682 -
1730 cm⁻¹ confidence 0.9
“Text: 'characteristic band of its cm-1 stretching vibration ν(C=O) at 1730'”
Bhullar 等 - 2022 - Assessing the quantification of acetylation in kon DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.119659
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