Lectures & Courses
Organic Spectroscopy, held in Michaelmas Term.
These six lectures introduce the primary spectroscopic methods used in the structural elucidation of organic molecules and build from the short "Introduction to Organic Spectroscopy" 1st Year course. The course starts with a brief review of IR spectroscopy and then introduces the application of NMR Spectroscopy, enabling you to interpret ¹H and ¹³C spectra of simple organic molecules and to identify simple organic structures from their NMR spectra (this runs in parallel with the “Introduction to NMR” 2nd year course which introduces the physical principles of magnetic resonance). The final lectures introduce mass spectrometry and considers the application of these techniques in structure elucidation.