Secondary amine — FTIR absorption peaks and assignments

Quick answer

Secondary amine is usually assigned by looking for a recurring cluster of characteristic peaks rather than one exact textbook number. The table below shows where the literature most often places this group in FTIR, ranked by accumulated evidence.

Characteristic FTIR peaks for Secondary amine

Showing the 30 best-supported peaks of 1101 total for Secondary amine.

Spectrum logic

A functional-group assignment becomes more confident when several expected bands appear together. Use this page to find the strongest-supported peaks, then confirm that the same sample exhibits a coherent pattern rather than a single isolated hit.

Real-world usage

These pages are useful for unknown material analysis, peak explanation in reports, polymer troubleshooting, and verifying whether a candidate material family is chemically plausible.

Common mistakes

• Using one functional-group page as a complete material verdict without checking the rest of the spectrum.
• Assuming the strongest band is always the most diagnostic one.
• Forgetting that processing, additives, aging, and mixtures can shift or broaden expected peaks.

Verification advice

Use DSC, GC-MS, or TGA when several material families share similar bands or when mixture effects make the FTIR assignment uncertain.

Literature behind these assignments

• 1566 cm⁻¹ confidence 1.0

  “1566cm-1, R2 due to NH in-plane bending, triazine stretching In every case a, good linear fit was obtained with valand C-N stretching, respectively, [23] and so, these bands ues >0.999.”

  Armenta 等 - 2004 - Determination of cyromazine in pesticide commercia DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2004.02.063
• 968 cm⁻¹ confidence 1.0

  “2000cm-1, 1.21mgg-1 baseline established in for a ChlorThe absorption bands of Chlorpyrifos are located at 1549, pyrifosstandardandthenoisemeasuredinthesameregionfor 968cm-1, 1412, 1339, 1165, 1088, 1025 and due to C N a blank spectrum and”

  Armenta 等 - 2005 - A validated and fast procedure for FTIR determinat DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.03.008
• 3420 cm⁻¹ confidence 1.0

  “The position of 3420cm-1 NH stretching vibration appears from 3500 to C O stretching vibration is particularly clear and is sensitive to 2 and the symmetric NH stretching is observed in the range O stretchits environment in the infrared [73”

  Arjunan 等 - 2007 - Fourier transform infrared and Raman spectral assi DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2006.09.044
• 2926 cm⁻¹ confidence 1.0

  “the samples with PG and the highest value in the FG sample, that is, 2923.74, 2926.15, from the CN stretch, CCN deformation and in-plane NH bending modes and is mostly cm-1 cm-1, 2927.71, and 2924.77 cm-1 for PG-FG 0-100, PG-FG 50-50, PG-FG”

  Application of Poultry Gelatin to Enhance the Physicochemical, Mechanical, and Rheological Properties of Fish Gelatin as Alternative Mammalian Gelatin Films for Food Packaging DOI: 10.3390/foods12030670
• 1413 cm⁻¹ confidence 1.0

  “The absorption bands 1413 cm-1 3-, cm-1 cm-1 at 815.25 and 728.12 were assigned to the N-O bending vibration of NO and to C-N at 815.25 cm-1 and 728.12 cm-1 were assigned to the N-O bending vibration of NO3-, and to C-N stretching from the”

  Effect of Ratio in Ammonium Nitrate on the Structural, Microstructural, Magnetic, and AC Conductivity Properties of BaFe12O19 DOI: 10.3390/ma11112190
• 3028 cm⁻¹ confidence 1.0

  “N-H peaks in the complexed materials are the stretching shifts in 3126cm-1 3028cm-1 4+ NH from to and that of the bending mode 1441cm-1 1433cm-1 H-N-H 0.001 of from to when 30 wt.”

  Synthesis and characterizations of phthaloyl chitosan-based polymer electrolytes DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2012.04.019
• 1176 cm⁻¹ confidence 1.0

  “spectra of the PDPA in doped state, these being peaked at 1176, 1201, 1368, 1541 and 1603 These Raman lines were attributed to vibrational modes of C-H bending in benzene ring, C-N stretching, semi-quinoid”

  Baibarac 等 - 2019 - Adsorption of 1,4-phenylene diisothiocyanate onto DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48314-x
• 2986 cm⁻¹ confidence 1.0

  “groups at 2986 The -NH peak (1586-1611 cm-1) is observed in the L-glutamic acid 2”

  Bakan 等 - 2020 - Synthesis, characterization and toxicity assessmen DOI: 10.1002/bip.21333