Taking a problem-based approach, the authors provide a practice-oriented and systematic introduction to both organic and inorganic structure determination by spectroscopic methods. This includes mass spectrometry, vibrational spectroscopies, UV/VIS spectroscopy and NMR as well as applying combinations of these methods. The authors show how to elucidate chemical structures with a minimal number of spectroscopic techniques. Readers can train their skills by more than 400 problems with varying degree of sophistication. Interactive Powerpoint-Charts are available as Extra Materials to support self-study.

Manfred Reichenbächer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Lehrbereich Umweltanalytik, manfred-reichenbaecher@t-online.de Jürgen Popp, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, juergen.popp@ipht-jena.de

Mass Spectrometry.- Vibrational Spectroscopy.- Electron Absorption Spectroscopy.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR).- Molecular Structure Determination by Means of Combined Application Methods.- Tables.