Learning outcomes - after studying this topic, you should be able to:

• explain the basic principles of a mass spectrometer
• identify the molecular ion, base peak and daughter ions in a mass spectrum
• derive structural information from a fragmentation pattern in a mass spectrum
• recognize the isotope distribution characteristic or bromine and chlorine containing compounds in a mass spectrum
• use the information that IR and UV-visible spectra provide to aid in the determination of structures
• explain the basic principles of NMR spectroscopy
• identify the number and type of carbon environments in a molecule and predict the number of signals in a ¹³C NMR spectrum
• 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

• Chapter 20 (in Blackman, Bottle, Schmid, Mocerino and Wille, Chemistry, 3^rd Edition, 2015 (John Wiley))

• Analytical techniques (in Wikibooks Organic Chemistry)

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