Table 1 Main vibrational modes present in the fingerprint region between 650–1800 cm−1 and the high wavenumber region between 2800–3000 cm−1 of the PLS loading spectra of PLSC2, PLSC3 and PLSC4 for the analysis of the LIQUID 1 dataset (according to Movasaghi et al.21 and Naseer et al.22).

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Wavenumber (cm−1)

Vibrational mode

Structural component

PLSC2

921 (924)

?

Membrane lipids (phospholipids)

1092

Stretching PO2 2 symmetric (phosphate II)

Nasym(C–O–C)

(polysaccharides-cellulose)

2878 (2880)

Asymmetric stretch of –CH2

Methylene

PLSC3

1299

Deformation N–H

Cytosine

1146

C–O bond

Phosphate and oligosaccharides

2838

Stretching C–H

Methoxy

PLSC4

1552 (1550)

CN stretch and NH bend

Amide I

867

?

Left-handed helix

DNA (Z form)

2941

?

?