Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
1: Mass spectrometry
1.1: The mass spectrometry experiment
1.2: Measuring relative atomic and molecular mass
1.3: Mass spectrometry of molecules
1.4: Analysis of mass spectra
1.5: Worked examples
1.6: Problems
1.7: Developments and applications
Further reading
2: Introduction to spectroscopic techniques
2.1: Electromagnetic radiation: energy, frequency and wavelength
2.2: Atomic and molecular energy levels
Further reading
3: Infra-red spectroscopy
3.1: Pure rotation i.r. spectra of small molecules
3.2: Vibration-rotation i.r. spectra of small molecules
3.3: I.r. spectroscopy of organic molecules
3.4: Examples of i.r. spectra
3.5: Problems
3.6: Conclusion
Further reading
4: Electronic (ultraviolet-visible) absorption spectroscopy
Problems
5: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
5.1: The n.m.r. experiment
5.2: H n.m.r. spectra of organic molecules
5.3: Examples of spectra showing spin-spin splittings
5.4: Worked examples
5.5: Problems
5.6: Pulsed n.m.r. spectrometers
5.7: C n.m.r. spectroscopy
5.8: Conclusion
Further reading
6: X-ray diffraction
6.1: Introduction to the X-ray diffraction method
6.2: Crystallography
6.3: Determination of structure
6.4: The structure of molecules
Index

About the Author

Dr S Duckett and Professor Bruce C Gilbert, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD

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