Chemistry A-Level
Carbon environment
What Carbon environment means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Carbon environment
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The type of carbon present, identified from chemical shift values by matching each observed shift to the typical ranges.
Topics that use Carbon environment
- Spectroscopy (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- base peak
- Bond vibration and absorption of IR radiation
- Carbon-13 NMR and molecular symmetry
- Carbon-13 NMR prediction
- Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
- Characteristic bond absorptions in IR
- Characteristic shifts of proton environments
- Chemical equivalence and symmetry
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