Considering reduced mass can sometimes yield useful approximations even if a replaced atom isn’t an isotope. Consider CO2 and OCS. The symmetric C5O stretching vibration occurs at 1338 cm-1. Estimate the frequency of the stretching vibration of the C5S bond assuming that the S atom is an isotope of oxygen. (It appears at 859 cm-1.) Is this a good approximation or not?
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