SUBJECT

Organic Spectroscopy

lecture

Master

Faculty of Science

Chemistry MSc

2

Semester 1/3

Autumn semester

The course covers the theoretical aspects of some of the most important spectroscopic methods used in the structure investigation of organic compounds such as UV-visible, infrared, electronic and vibrational circular dichroism (CD and VCD), NMR and mass spectrometry, with special emphasis to the structure elucidation based on complex spectral evaluation.

Compulsory literature:

• Joseph B. Lambert, Herbert F. Shurvell, David A. Lightner, R. Graham Cooks: Organic Structural Spectroscopy, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA (2001).

Suggested literature:

• L.D. Field, S. Sternhell, J.R. Kalman: Organic Structures from Spectra, third edition, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK (2002).