Organic Spectroscopic Structure Determination
A Problem-Based Learning Approach
Douglass F. Taber
Table of Contents
Section One: Strategies for Spectroscopic Structure Determination
1. 13C NMR
2. 1H NMR and IR
3. Calculating 13C NMR, Mass Spectrometry and UV
Section Two: Spectroscopic Data Sets
Section Three: Reactions and Products
Section Four: Tables of Spectroscopic Data
13C NMR TABLES
C.1: Chemical shifts of cycloalkanes
C.2: Chemical Shifts of saturated heterocycles
C.3: Alkene and cycloalkene chemical shift
C.4: Chemical shifts of substituted alkenes
C.5: Alkyne chemical shifts
C.6: Chemical shifts of alcohols
C.7: Chemical shifts of ethers, acetals and epoxides
C.8: Shift positions of the C=O group and other carbon atoms of ketones and aldehydes
C.9: Shift positions of the C=O group and other carbon atoms of carboxylic acids, esters, lactones, chlorides, anhydrides, amides carbamates and nitriles
C.10: The 13C shifts for some linear and branched-chain alkanes
C.11: Incremental substituent effects (ppm) on replacement of H by Y in alkanes, Y is terminal or internal (+ downfield, - upfield
C.12: Incremental shifts of the aromatic carbons of monosubstituted Benzenes (ppm from benzene at 128.5 ppm, + downfield, - upfield)
1H NMR TABLES:
H.1: Chemical shifts of protons on a carbon atom adjacent to a functional group in aliphatic compounds (M-Y).
H.2 : Proton spin-coupling constants
H.3: Chemical shifts of alicyclic compounds
H.4: Chemical shifts of protons in monosubstituted benzene derivatives