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Asked 25th Jan, 2017

How to remove residual peaks of solvent from NMR ?

how to remove residual peaks of solvent from NMR ?

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Sandeep Vaidya
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
@nitika grover use low boiling point solvent and then dried on high vacuum for 2, 3 hrs.

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Jacob Kravetz
Johns Hopkins University
It depends on which solvents you are dealing with. For lower boiling solvents like ethyl acetate, ether, hexanes and acetone, etc. using a roto-vap followed by several hours on a high-vac should be sufficient to remove these solvents.
For higher boiling solvents, especially ones that have a higher boiling point than water, you will likely need to azeotrope it with several rounds of an appropriate, lower boiling solvent, and then remove the low boiling solvent as mentioned above.
You can find lists of azeotropes on wikipedia and elsewhere. 
Hope this helps.
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Jacob Kravetz
Johns Hopkins University
It depends on which solvents you are dealing with. For lower boiling solvents like ethyl acetate, ether, hexanes and acetone, etc. using a roto-vap followed by several hours on a high-vac should be sufficient to remove these solvents.
For higher boiling solvents, especially ones that have a higher boiling point than water, you will likely need to azeotrope it with several rounds of an appropriate, lower boiling solvent, and then remove the low boiling solvent as mentioned above.
You can find lists of azeotropes on wikipedia and elsewhere. 
Hope this helps.
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Carlos Cortes
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Hi Nikita, what kind of solvent does your sample has?
best regards
Dattatraya U Ukale
University of Oxford
Hi,
Its depends on what kind of pulse sequence you used. You can suppress the solvent peak by solvent suppression pulse sequence(water suppression)and other some more advance in Bruker NMR spectrometer.
James Demers
Cittone, Demers & Arneri LLP
Jacob's method is what I often used.  Especially useful with proton NMR, where you can use a proton-free solvent like CCl4 or tetrachloroethylene to "chase" off volatile solvents by evaporation.
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Manish Kumar Jaiswal
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Using high vacuum pump.. You can remove your solvent. If water is there dissolve your compound in dcm add sodium sulphate and again concentrate, or other polar solvent is there then do water workup ,  or you can do short column.. 
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Hieu Nguyen-Ngoc
Phenikaa University
Normally, it is impossible to remove all solvent peaks from your spectra because the deuterization of NMR solvent cannot reach to 100 per cent. If your sample is not completely dry, it will come up in the spectrum. Hence, my recommendation is that you should dry the sample completely (not only by rotavapor, but by freeze drying overnight or by speed vacuum machine)
Second problem must be water peak. Since water presents in every solvent (even very non-polar ones like chloroform-d), it is recommended to use some salt to absorb the majority of water. You can see the water peak appears strongly in methanol-d4 or DMSO-d6 due to its polarity. My recommendation is to keep solvent in room temperature and use parafilm to cover whenever you finish the sample preparation.
Some spectral technique to remove the peaks are not typical in routine NMR measurements.
Hope that can help you,
Best
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Ramin Zibaseresht
Maritime University of Imam Khomeini
Hi Nikita,
Can you please tell me which solvents do you mean?
The solvents from your reaction mixture? or the deuterated solvents from your NMR determination?
Pouya Haratipour
The City of Hope National Medical Center
Rossen Buyukliev
Medical University of Sofia
There is a special program "Solvent peak suppression" in the software of any modern NMR spectrometer. Just use it. 
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Dipak Kumar Nayak
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
Its totally depend on which solvent present as residue. It's better to desiccate over night in P2O5. 
Ramin Zibaseresht
Maritime University of Imam Khomeini
Hi Nikita,
For 1H NMR spectra, the solvent residual signals arise from the proton of isotopomers containing one less deuterium atom than the perdeuterated solvent: e.g., CDHCl2 in CD2Cl2. For 13C NMR spectra,the solvent signals arise from the 13C atoms at natural abundance in the perdeuterated solvent.
Cheers,
Ramin
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Sandeep Vaidya
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
@nitika grover use low boiling point solvent and then dried on high vacuum for 2, 3 hrs.

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