Chemical Sciences: A Manual for CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship and JRF/Deuterated benzene


Deuterated benzene (C6D6), is a form (called an isotopologue) of benzene (C6H6)in which the hydrogen atom ("H") is replaced with deuterium (heavy hydrogen) isotope ("D"). Deuterated benzene is a common solvent used in NMR spectroscopy.

Structural formula of deuterated benzene