Chemistry A-Level
Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
What Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
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A technique that tells you how many distinct carbon environments a molecule contains, where each set of equivalent carbons gives one signal.
Topics that use Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
- Spectroscopy (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- base peak
- Bond vibration and absorption of IR radiation
- Carbon environment
- Carbon-13 NMR and molecular symmetry
- Carbon-13 NMR prediction
- Characteristic bond absorptions in IR
- Characteristic shifts of proton environments
- Chemical equivalence and symmetry
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