Chemical shifts for residual solvents and the trace impurities that show up in almost every 1H spectrum, in the eight deuterated solvents used most. Read across the row for the same impurity in a different solvent.
| Compound | Proton | Mult. | CDCl3 | CD2Cl2 | C6D6 | (CD3)2CO | (CD3)2SO | CD3CN | CD3OD | D2O |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solvent residual | residual | - | 7.26 | 5.32 | 7.16 | 2.05 | 2.50 | 1.94 | 3.31 | 4.79 |
| Water (H2O / HDO) | OH | s | 1.56 | 1.52 | 0.40 | 2.84 | 3.33 | 2.13 | 4.87 | 4.79 |
| Acetone | CH3 | s | 2.17 | 2.12 | 1.55 | 2.09 | 2.09 | 2.08 | 2.15 | 2.22 |
| Acetonitrile | CH3 | s | 2.10 | 1.97 | 0.58 | 2.05 | 2.07 | 1.96 | 2.03 | 2.06 |
| Benzene | CH | s | 7.36 | 7.35 | 7.15 | 7.36 | 7.37 | 7.37 | 7.33 | |
| tert-Butanol | CH3 | s | 1.28 | 1.24 | 1.05 | 1.18 | 1.11 | 1.16 | 1.40 | 1.24 |
| Chloroform | CH | s | 7.26 | 7.32 | 6.15 | 8.02 | 8.32 | 7.58 | 7.90 | |
| Dichloromethane | CH2 | s | 5.30 | 5.33 | 4.27 | 5.63 | 5.76 | 5.44 | 5.49 | |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | CH2 | s | 3.73 | 3.76 | 2.90 | 3.87 | 3.90 | 3.81 | 3.78 | |
| Diethyl ether | CH3 | t | 1.21 | 1.15 | 1.11 | 1.11 | 1.09 | 1.12 | 1.18 | 1.17 |
| Diethyl ether | CH2 | q | 3.48 | 3.43 | 3.26 | 3.41 | 3.38 | 3.42 | 3.49 | 3.56 |
| 1,4-Dioxane | CH2 | s | 3.71 | 3.65 | 3.35 | 3.59 | 3.57 | 3.60 | 3.66 | 3.75 |
| Ethanol | CH3 | t | 1.25 | 1.19 | 0.96 | 1.12 | 1.06 | 1.12 | 1.19 | 1.17 |
| Ethanol | CH2 | q | 3.72 | 3.66 | 3.34 | 3.57 | 3.44 | 3.54 | 3.60 | 3.65 |
| Ethyl acetate | CH3CO | s | 2.05 | 2.00 | 1.65 | 1.97 | 1.99 | 1.97 | 2.01 | 2.07 |
| n-Hexane | CH3 | t | 0.88 | 0.89 | 0.89 | 0.88 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.90 | |
| Methanol | CH3 | s | 3.49 | 3.34 | 3.07 | 3.31 | 3.16 | 3.28 | 3.34 | 3.34 |
| Nitromethane | CH3 | s | 4.33 | 4.34 | 2.94 | 4.43 | 4.42 | 4.31 | 4.34 | 4.40 |
| Silicone grease | CH3 | s | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.29 | 0.13 | 0.08 | 0.10 | ||
| Tetrahydrofuran | OCH2 | m | 3.76 | 3.69 | 3.57 | 3.63 | 3.60 | 3.64 | 3.71 | 3.74 |
| Toluene | CH3 | s | 2.36 | 2.34 | 2.11 | 2.32 | 2.30 | 2.33 | 2.32 | |
| Triethylamine | CH3 | t | 1.03 | 0.99 | 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 0.96 | 1.05 | 0.99 |
| Dimethylformamide | CHO | s | 8.02 | 7.96 | 7.63 | 7.96 | 7.95 | 7.92 | 7.97 | 7.92 |
Fulmer et al., Organometallics 2010, 29, 2176-2179, Table 1 (1H NMR), residual-solvent and trace-impurity shifts.
Data revision 2026-06-22.
These values are imported from the same data the Aliquot calculators use, so this page cannot drift away from what the tools compute.