Subject Code: CY7L028 Subject Name: Organic Spectroscopy L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Prerequisite(s): Nil
Infrared Spectroscopy: Characteristic vibrational frequencies of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic compounds, alcohols, ethers, phenols, amines; Detailed study of vibrational frequencies of carbonyl compounds (ketones, aldehydes, esters, amides, acid anydrides, lactones, lactams, conjugated carbonyl compounds); Effects of H-bonding and solvent effect on vibrational frequency, extension to various organic molecules for structural assignment. UV Spectroscopy: UV-Visible, Basic concepts and factors affecting the position of UV bands, Characteristic absorption of Organic compounds, Application of UV spectroscopy. Mass Spectroscopy:  Mass
spectral fragmentation of organic compounds, common functionalgroups; molecular peak, McLafferty rearrangements, examples of mass spectral fragmentation of organic compounds with respect to their structure determination. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Approximate chemical shift values of various chemically non-equivalent protons and correlation to protons bonded to carbon (aliphatic, olefinic, aldehydic and aromatic); Protons bonded to other nuclei (alcohols, phenols, enols, carboxylic acids, amines, amides, SH); Chemical exchange, effect of deuteration; complex spin-spin interaction; nuclear magnetic double resonance, Fourier transform
technique and nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE). Chemical shift (aliphatic, olefinic, alkynes, aromatic, hetero-aromatic, carbonyl carbon); Coupling constants, two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy, NOESY, DEPT and INEPT terminologies.Applications of IR, NMR and Mass spectroscopy for structure elucidation of organic compounds.
Text/ Reference Books:
  1. Silverstein R. M.; Bassler C. G. and Morril, T. C. Spectrophotometric Identification of Organic Compounds, Wiley.
  2. Williams D. H. and Fleming I. Spectroscopic Methods in Organic Chemistry, McGraw Hill.
  3. Kemp W. Organic Spectroscopy, ELBS.