Structural representation
What Structural representation means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Structural representation
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Reference: OCR
Drawing the structure and marking equivalent hydrogens with the same label before counting the environments.
Topics that use Structural representation
- 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
Using Structural representation in the exam
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