Interpreting Organic Spectra

Spectroscopic data provides a great deal of useful information about organic molecules. Competently deriving structural information from such data therefore, is a requisite skill for many undergraduates studying chemistry. This work covers the basic principles of spectroscopy in as non-mathematical a way as possible. It assumes no previous knowledge of spectroscopy and avoids excessive theory, approaching the topic as an exercise in pattern recognition. Hence, the main focus of the book is in the provision on the simpler spectra, and applying techniques learned to tackle more complex examples.