Chem 4000 A Practical Spectroscopy Spring 2008

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Text: Introduction to Spectroscopy by: Pavia, Lampman and Kriz.

Other reading material will be made available as handouts that will be distributed as required.

This course will focus on three spectroscopic techniques used to determine molecular structure. These include mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This course will touch on the first two methods briefly, as infrared spectroscopy, has been dealt with in previously, and no mass spectrometry facilities are available at this university. In contrast the university does have a first rate NMR facility that you will be using in the second half of the course. As a result the course will deal primarily with NMR spectroscopy starting with proton and carbon NMR eventually leading towards multidimensional methods.

Topics:

1 Ch. 1 Molecular formulas and what can be learned from them.

2 Ch. 8 Mass Spectrometry

3 Ch. 2 Infrared Spectroscopy

4 Ch. 3 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Basic Concepts

5 Ch. 4 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Carbon Spectroscopy

6 Ch. 5 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Spin-Spin Coupling

7 Ch. 6 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Other Topics

Supplementary material will be provided on the website

8 Ch. 9 Combined Problems.

9 Ch. 10 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: 2D techniques

Laboratory: Kris Fisher Mondays 1:00 to 3:50 pm.

The mass spectrometry section will be comprised of tutorials since no equipment is available. An infrared spectrometer is available and will be used in most laboratory exercises. There are two NMR spectrometers, one which operates at 300 MHz that will be used for routine 1D and 2D, proton and carbon spectroscopy the other 500 MHz machine will be used for demonstrations of advances methods in solution and solid state NMR.

Evaluation:

Assignments: 10 %

Laboratory: 40 %

Midterm 15 %

Final: 35 %

Late assignments and laboratory reports will be penalized at 10 % per day. In the event that one misses the midterm for a legitimate reason the final will count for 50 %. One must pass the laboratory (20 % out of 40 % or better) in order to pass the course.