The lab instructions provided five components of cinnamon oil, of which one is the major component of clove oil. Of these five chemicals, only one, eugenol, has a phenol functional group. Because the IR spectrum of the distilled clove essential oil had a weak, broad peak around 3200 to 3500 cm-1, which corresponds to the hydroxyl/phenol functional group, there is evidence that eugenol is the major component of clove oil. Furthermore, since the IR spectra for the other four given chemicals would most likely not have such a peak due to their lack of phenol functional groups, there is even stronger reason to conclude that eugenol is the major component of clove oil. Regarding the 13C NMR, the spectrum provided displayed ten peaks, which corresponds
