Chemistry A-Level
Reference standards in NMR
What Reference standards in NMR means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Reference standards in NMR
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A small amount of tetramethylsilane, TMS, is added to the sample so that every other peak is reported as a shift from the TMS line.
Topics that use Reference standards in NMR
- 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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