This up-to-date account of key areas in modern organic spectroscopy
describes the four major instrumental methods used routinely by organic
chemists: ultra-violet/visible, infra-red, nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy, and mass spectroscopy. It provides a concise introduction
to the physical background of each, describing how molecules interact
with electromagnetic radiation or how they fragment when excited
sufficiently, and how this information may be applied to the
determination of chemical structures. It also includes simple
descriptions of instrumentation and emphasizes modern methodology
throughout, such as the Fourier-transform approach to data analysis.
Each chapter concludes with problems to test readers' understanding of
organic spectroscopy.