Identification of Drugs and Pharmaceuticals

Learning outcomes - after studying this topic, you should be able to:
  • identify the molecular ion, base peak and daughter ions in a mass spectrum
  • use the information that IR and UV-visible spectra provide to aid in the determination of structures
  • identify the number and type of hydrogen environments in a molecule and predict the the number of signals in a 1H NMR spectrum
  • predict the number of hydrogen atoms in each environment from the size of the signals in a 1H NMR spectrum
  • predict the number of hydrogen atoms on neighbouring atoms from the multiplicity of the signals in a 1H NMR spectrum
  • determine the structure of a simple compound from spectroscopic data

Textbook and eBook References

  • Chapter 20 (in )

ChemCAL, iChem and Contributed Resources

Spectroscopy game
Description: For those who want to practise their IR/NMR/etc skills.
Tags: IR | NMR | spectroscopy
Contributed by Adam Bridgeman