Thiol detection

What is it about?

A thiol functional group, in spite of its importance, is sometimes very hard to detect. Due to proton exchange, its detection by NMR is not possible in water and methanol solution. The vibrational signatures described here are a solution to this long standing problem in analytical chemistry.

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Why is it important?

Now thiol groups should be detectable conveniently in most laboratories in solid and in solutions and one no longer has to "smell it to believe it".