Chemistry A-Level
Chemical shift scale in ppm
What Chemical shift scale in ppm means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Measured in parts per million on the δ scale, it tells you what kind of proton environment is present because each type of hydrogen absorbs at a characteristic shift.
Topics that use Chemical shift scale in ppm
- Spectroscopy (OCR A-Level)
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- base peak
- Bond vibration and absorption of IR radiation
- Carbon environment
- Carbon-13 NMR and molecular symmetry
- Carbon-13 NMR prediction
- Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
- Characteristic bond absorptions in IR
- Characteristic shifts of proton environments
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