Chemistry A-Level
Proton environment
What Proton environment means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Proton environment
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Reference: OCR
A set of hydrogen atoms that are chemically equivalent, meaning they sit in the same structural position and experience the same magnetic surroundings.
Topics that use Proton environment
- 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
- Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
- Characteristic bond absorptions in IR
- Characteristic shifts of proton environments
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