Contemporary strategies in natural products structure elucidation

Abstract

This chapter will describe the four primary spectroscopic techniques utilized for organic structure analysis: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS), and mass spectrometry (MS). Each of these methods is used on a daily basis by most organic chemists in the course of structure elucidation analysis, requiring a very small amount of material in a generally nondestructive approach.