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Introduction to Spectroscopy: A Guide for Students of Organic Chemistry (Saunders golden sunburst series)

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This book is probably the best introductory reference on spectroscopy currently available, and I've checked out pretty much every book on the market right now. I'm a chemist, and this book got me through my senior synthesis and spectroscopy lab. Proton and carbon-13 NMR, IR, GC/MS, and UV/Vis are all covered in the book. It includes many handy tables of characteristic shifts for NMR, characteristic absorbances for IR and UV/Vis, and a nifty table on common GC/MS fragments by m/e. The chapter on 2D NMR is lousy, but that's not really introductory material anyhow. The UV/Vis chapter is kind of cursory, but UV/Vis isn't all that useful.
This is a book that I intend to hang on to for a while.

I have found this book to a great tool for students of organic chemistry especially those wanting to further their education in graduate school or medical school.It is eay to read and can also be used a "teach yourself" book. I recomend this book to anyone who is a bit shaky in interpreting NMR, IR, and Mass Spec.

Standard textbook outlining most spectroscopic techniques as taught at undergraduate level. However, contains an embarrassingly dated treatment of mass spectrometry which can not have been rewritten since the 1970s. No mention of the biggest MS techniques in use today (electrospray and MALDI), a glaring oversight especially in light of Fenn & Tanaka winning Nobel Prizes in 2002 for just these developments. And time-of-flight instruments having a mass range of 5000 and resolution of 200? Several years before this book was published, commercial machines were available with mass ranges well over 100,000 Da and resolutions of 10,000+. Not only poor, but misleading. Overall, a rather derivative book that seems to have been written largely by consultation of more authoritative work (probably an early edition of Williams & Fleming).

The new edition of Pavis might be the twin to Crews' Organic Structural Analysis. This text discusses the fundamentals of 1H NMR, carbon-13 NMR, infrared spectroscopy, UV spectroscopy. The book also includes a section on 2D NMR. Pavia should not be missed by advanced undergraduate students who pursue research and practicing chemists who need quick reference on interpreting spectra.

I had to use this book for my organic spec class. Its a great book to help you get the main ideas. However, it needs additional references. It pairs very well with the Silverstein book. Also, buy the international edition of the book elsewhere. Its only about forty bucks and it is spot on identical.

I absolutely LOVE this book. I first bought it for my Junior year analytical chemistry class, and I still use it today in grad school. It is VERY good at explaining NMR theory. Anything I ever needed related to NMR or IR I found in this book. It is by far the most useful chemistry book I own.

This is the most important book anybody who has any associate with spectroscopy will ever buy. It has beautiful spectroscopy tables in the back so that you know exactly what comes at that frequency, the text is terrific, and they have examples in the back to help solidify the knowledge. If you're taking spectroscopy or just need a lab IR, NMR, MS reference, buy it. If you hate books and want to fail, shoot for another text.

The book is really expensive for an international edition. The seller needs to state it clearly on the main advertizing page that it's an intl. edition. The caption it's like new for a price of $95 is very deceptive since the actual intl edition ranges between $55-$70. I bought the book at the advertised price with the thinking that it was the US edition.

1. Molecular Formulas and What Can Be Learned From Them.
2. Infrared Spectroscopy.
3. NMR Spectroscopy Part One: Basic Concepts.
4. NMR Spectroscopy Part Two: Carbon-13 Spectra, Including Heteronuclear Coupling With Other Nuclei.
5. NMR Spectroscopy Part Three: Spin-Spin Coupling.
6. NMR Spectroscopy Part Four: Other Topics in One-Dimensional NMR.
7. Ultraviolet Spectroscopy.
8. Mass Spectrometry.
9. Combined Structure Problems.
10. NMR Spectroscopy Part Five: Advanced NMR Techniques.

Answers to Selected Problems.

Appendix 1: Infrared Absorption Frequencies of Functional Groups.
Appendix 2: Some Representative Chemical Shift Values for Various Types of Protons.
Appendix 3: Typical Proton Coupling Constants.
Appendix 4: Calculation of Proton (1H) Chemical Shifts.
Appendix 5: Calculation of Carbon-13 Chemical Shifts.
Appendix 6: 13C Coupling Constants.
Appendix 7: Tables of Precise Masses and Isotopic Abundance Ratios for Molecular Ions Under Mass 100 Containing Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Oxygen.
Appendix 8: Common Fragment Ions Under Mass 105.
Appendix 9: Handy-Dandy Guide to Mass Spectral Fragmentation Patterns.
Appendix 10: Index of Spectra.
Index.

I got this for a few bucks so hard to pass. You can get most of the updated information on wikipedia. Knowing which is the best one to use is better resolved with a quick call to a lab.