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The aim of this textbook is not to provide you, the reader, with large numbers of correlation tables for every form of spectroscopy used by organic chemists; nor is it designed to give you an in-depth understanding of the physical processes that occur when molecules interact with electromagnetic radiation.
What authors hope to do in this textbook is to provide you with a basic understanding of how each type of spectroscopy gives rise to spectra, and how these spectra can be used to determine the structure of organic molecules. This text is aimed at undergraduate students in Years 1 and 2, and is meant to provide an introduction to organic spectroscopic analysis, leading to an appreciation of the information available from each form of spectroscopy and an ability to use spectroscopic information in the identification of organic compounds.
This book mainly concentrate upon the most commonly used techniques in organic structure determination: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (TR) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry (MS). The amount of’ space devoted to each technique in this text is meant to be representative of their current usage for structure determination.
Finally, this book brings all of these techniques together in an attempt to show you how to go about the structure determination of an unknown compound in a (reasonably) logical manner. The main aim of this book has been to provide spectra to illustrate every point made, but do analyse fully each of the spectra in order to obtain the
