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The consumption of the reactant benzophenone and the production of triphenylmethanol can be detected using their IR absorption spectrum
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The reactant benzophenone is a compound which contains a carbonyl functional group, and the stretching frequency of C=O bond has a high absorption at around [tex]1680 \ cm^{-1}[/tex] and frequency band of this wavelength is absent in triphenylmethanol.
in the same vain the product triphenylmethanol is a compound which contains a hydroxyl (OH) functional group, and the stretching frequency of O-H bond has a high absorption at around [tex]3474 \ cm^{-1}[/tex] and frequency band of this wavelength is absent in benzophenone.
To use infrared spectroscopy to show that the reaction is occurring is to show the disappearance of the [tex]1680 \ cm^{-1}[/tex] frequency band which indictes the consumption of benzophenone and the appearance [tex]3474 \ cm^{-1}[/tex] frequency band which indictes the formation of triphenylmethanol
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