Structure determination of organic compounds, practical exercises

The authors have conceived and organized this workbook to provide students with the educational materials collected and used along the years for their lectures in Organic Spectroscopy courses at the University of Milan. This workbook is directed to bachelor and master students facing their first issues related to the identification and characterization of organic compounds by combination of the most common key techniques (IR, NMR and MS). To make the most of the contents of this book, students are required to be skilled in organic chemistry as well as in basic spectroscopic theory. The spectra collection is arranged in ascending order of difficulty, starting from the examination of simple compounds whose structures can be recognized through the analysis of 1H and 13C NMR, IR and MS spectra (chapters 1-3). Chapters 4 and 5 present a second set of compounds, analyzed through 1D and/or 2D NMR techniques when these are useful to solve particular structural issues. There is no specific chapter devoted to NMR spectra of nuclei other than H and C: however, in order to introduce the concepts of heteronuclei coupling, chapter 4 includes several examples of compounds containing F and P atoms.