Organic Structure Determination Using 2-D NMR Spectroscopy

This book contains 30-40 quality 2D NMR data sets following an introductory section describing the methodology employed. Many other books describe the methods used, but none offer a large number of problems. Instructors at universities and colleges at the present time are forced to cobble together problems from a wide range of sources. The fragmentary approach to assembling course materials has a negative impact on course continuity and thus adversely impacts student retention. This book will stand as a single source to which instructors and students can go to obtain a comprehensive compendium of NMR problems of varying difficulty.

. Presents strategies for assigning resonances to known structures and for deducing structures of unknown organic molecules based on their NMR spectra
. Contains 20 known and 20 unknown structure determination problems
. Features a supporting website from which instructors can download the structures of the unknowns in selected chapters, digital versions of all figures, and raw data sets for processing.

PART I: Background and Methods
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Instrumental Considerations
Chapter 3: Data Collection, Processing, and Plotting
Chapter 4: 1H and 13C Chemical Shifts
Chapter 5: Symmetry and Topicity
Chapter 6: Through-Bond Effects: Spin-Spin (J) Coupling
Chapter 7: Through-Space Effects: the Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE)
Chapter 8: Molecular Dynamics
Chapter 9: Strategies for Assigning Molecules
Chapter 10: Strategies for Elucidating Unknown Molecular Structures
PART II: Problems
Chapter 11 Simple Assignment Problems
Chapter 12: Complex Assignment Problems
Chapter 13: Simple Unknown Problems
Chapter 14: Complex Unknown Problems