What absorbs at 587 cm⁻¹ in an FTIR spectrum?
A band near 587 cm⁻¹ can point to several functional groups. Below are the most likely assignments, ranked by how much published evidence supports each — every one traceable to literature (DOI) and cross-validated against our 130,000+ reference spectra and knowledge graph.
Backed by 6 cited sources
Possible functional-group assignments
| Functional group | Supporting facts | Cited sources | Top confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metal oxygen | 3 | 3 | 1.0 |
| Secondary amine | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| C n single bond | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Amide | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| C c single bond | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Hydrogen bond | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Hydroxyl (O-H) | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| N h | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Silicon nitrogen | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Silicon carbon | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Silicon (Si) | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
Ranking reflects accumulated literature evidence, not a single authoritative rule. Always confirm against your sample context.
Literature behind these assignments
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Metal oxygen confidence 1.0
“Explicit assignment: 'characteristic peak at 587 typical for Fe-O bond'”
Green synthesis of magnetite nanoparticles using Lathyrus sativus peel extract and evaluation of their catalytic activity DOI: 10.1016/j.clet.2021.100117 -
Silicon (Si) confidence 1.0
“Peaks centred at 587, 672 and cm-1 cm-1 809 correspond to the Si-C bonds.”
Optical and photoelectrochemical properties of nitrogen-doped a-SiC thin films deposited by reactive DOI: 10.1080/2374068X.2021.1890420 -
confidence 1.0
“While cm-1 the peaks in the region of 3170-3382 are corresponding to N-H, -NH 2, and O-H bonds, respectively cm-1 and the FTIR peak at 587 support the bond Co-Se.”
Ahamad - 2022 - CoSe2@N-Doped Graphene Nanocomposite High-Efficien DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1197256/v1 -
confidence 1.0
“doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153544.g003 587cm-1 shows the stretching vibrations due to tetrahedral Fe-O.”
Influence of Reduced Graphene Oxide on Effective Absorption Bandwidth Shift of Hybrid Absorbers DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153544 -
Metal oxygen confidence 1.0
“The band cm-1 ∼587 ascribable to bulk (Fe-O) vibrations shifts from (see the solid line trace of the calcined Th cm-1, ∼578 due to the changed (increased) particles size sample in section (a) of Fig.”
Crocella 等 - 2012 - On the Role of Morphology of CoFeO4 Spinel in Meth DOI: 10.1021/jp304355d -
C c single bond confidence 1.0
“FTIR of K 3[Fe(CN) 6] as shown in Figure 2(a) exhibit cm-1 (1100,1000, 757 ) due to skeletal stretching cm-1, cm-1 peaks at (3464 1630 ), (2118, 2076, 2043) cm-1 vibration of C-C, C-N, 587 due to N-C-C-N and cm-1 cm-1 and 511 which are attr”
Moosvi 等 - 2016 - Studying the electrical, thermal, and photocatalyt DOI: 10.1590/1980-5373-MR-2015-0786
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