Research Article

Application of Carboxymethyl Chitosan-Benzaldehyde as Anticorrosion Agent on Steel

Table 1

Analysis of functional groups of chitosan and CMC using FTIR.

Functional groupsWave numbers according to Zheng et al. [7] (cm−1)Wave numbers of chitosan (cm−1)Wave numbers of CMC from the synthesis results (cm−1)

C-O stretch1030–10941033.77–1083.921033.77–1081.99
Bridge-O stretch11531153.351151.42
N-H bending15561421.441598.88
C-H stretch28812883.382889.17
O-H stretch34213440.773434.98
COO1407–1598-1407.94