ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 40, Number 6
JKCSEZ 40(6)
December 20, 1996 

Hydrogen bonding, dielectric effects and steric effects are all factors which determine the carbonyl stretching frequency, νC=O of ketones in solution. The νC=O frequency of ketones is affected by change in concentration of ketones in various solvents. The νC=O frequency shifts to lower frequency in nonpolar solvents and shifts to higher frequency in polar solvents with the increasing volume% of ketones. In acetonitrle, the νC=O frequency shifts to higher frequency as the volume% of ketones is increased except dimethyl ketone. The νC=O frequency shifts to lower frequency as the solvent system becomes increasingly polar or with the increasing extent of intermolecular hydrogen bonding, as in the case of increasing volume% chloroform in CHCl3/CCl4 solvent system.