Field L.D., Sternhell S., Kalman J.R. Organic Structures from Spectra

Fourth Edition. - Wiley , 2008. - 454 p.The derivation of structural information from spectroscopic data is an integral part of Organic Chemistry courses at all Universities. At the undergraduate level, the principal aim of such courses is to teach students to solve simple structural problems efficiently by using combinations of the major techniques (UV, IR, NMR and MS),
and over more than 25 years we have evolved a course at the University of Sydney, which achieves this aim quickly and painlessly. The text is tailored specifically to the needs and philosophy of this course. As we believe our approach to be successful, we hope that it may be of use in other institutions.
The course has been taught at the beginning of the third year, at which stage students have completed an elementary course of Organic Chemistry in first year and a mechanistically-oriented intermediate course in second year. Students have also been exposed in their Physical Chemistry courses to elementary spectroscopic theory, but are, in general, unable to relate it to the material presented in this course.
The course consists of about 9 lectures outlining the theory, instrumentation and the structure-spectra correlations of the major spectroscopic techniques and the text of this book corresponds to the material presented in the 9 lectures. The treatment is both elementary and condensed and, not surprisingly, the students have great difficulties in solving even the simplest problems at this stage. The lectures are followed by a series of 2-hour problem solving seminars with 5 to 6 problems being presented per seminar. At the conclusion of the course, the great majority of the class is quite proficient and has achieved a satisfactory level of understanding of all methods used. Clearly, the real teaching is done during the problem seminars, which are organised in a manner modelled on that used at the E.T.H. Zurich.Ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy
Mass spectrometry
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
13C NMR spectroscopy
Miscellaneous topics
Determining the structure of organic molecules from spectra
Problems