Book description
The derivation of structural information from spectroscopic data is
now an integral part of organic chemistry courses at all
Universities. A critical part of any such course is a suitable set of
problems to develop the student's understanding of how structures are
determined from spectra.
Organic Structures from Spectra, Fifth Edition is a carefully
chosen set of more than 280 structural problems employing the major
modern spectroscopic techniques, a selection of 27 problems using
2D-NMR spectroscopy, more than 20 problems specifically dealing with
the interpretation of spin-spin coupling in proton NMR spectra and 8
problems based on the quantitative analysis of mixtures using proton
and carbon NMR spectroscopy. All of the problems are graded to
develop and consolidate the student's understanding of organic
spectroscopy. The accompanying text is descriptive and only explains
the underlying theory at a level which is sufficient to tackle the
problems. The text includes condensed tables of characteristic
spectral properties covering the frequently encountered functional groups.
The examples themselves have been selected to include all important
common structural features found in organic compounds and to emphasise
connectivity arguments. Many of the compounds were synthesised
specifically for this purpose. There are many more easy problems, to
build confidence and demonstrate basic principles, than in other collections.
The fifth edition of this popular textbook:
• includes more than 250 new spectra and more than 25 completely new
problems;
• now incorporates an expanded suite of new problems
dealing with the analysis of 2D NMR spectra (COSY, C H Correlation
spectroscopy, HMBC, NOESY and TOCSY);
• has been expanded and
updated to reflect the new developments in NMR and to retire older
techniques that are no longer in common use;
• provides a set of
problems dealing specifically with the quantitative analysis of
mixtures using NMR spectroscopy;
• features proton NMR spectra
obtained at 200, 400 and 600 MHz and 13C NMR spectra include DEPT
experiments as well as proton-coupled experiments;
• contains 6
problems in the style of the experimental section of a research paper
and two examples of fully worked solutions.
Organic Structures from Spectra, Fifth Edition will prove
invaluable for students of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Biochemistry taking
a first course in Organic Chemistry.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Ultraviolet
Spectroscopy
Infrared Spectroscopy
Mass
Spectrometry
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
2DNMR
Problems
Index
Reviews from earlier editions
“Your book is becoming one of the “go to” books for teaching
structure determination here in the States. Great work!”
“…I would definitely state that this book is the most useful aid to
basic organic spectroscopy teaching in existence and I would strongly
recommend every instructor in this area to use it either as a source
of examples or as a class textbook”.
Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry
“Over the past year I have trained many students using problems in
your book - they initially find it as a task. But after doing 3-4
problems with all their brains activities... working out the rest of
the problems become a mania. They get addicted to the problem solving
and every time they solve a problem by themselves, their confident
level also increases.”
“I am teaching the fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy and your
books represent excellent sources of spectroscopic problems for students.”
