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Contemporary Strategies in Natural Products Structure Elucidation

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This chapter will describe the four primary spectroscopic techniques utilized for organic structure analysis: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR), ultraviolet–visible (UV–VIS), and mass spectrometry (MS). Each of these methods is used on a daily basis by most organic chemists in the course of structure elucidation analysis, requiring a very small amount of material in a generally nondestructive approach.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación for grant CTQ2008-04024/BQU. Also thanks to professors Maria Ruiz-Pita Romero, Montserrat Martinez Cebeiro, Jose Pérez Sestelo, and Vicente Ojea Cao for providing NMR spectra for the study questions.

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  1. Departamento de Química Fundamental, Campus da Zapateira. Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

    Jaime Rodríguez (Facultad de Ciencias)

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, USA

    Phillip Crews

  3. Department of Chemistry, Marine Biodiscovery Centre, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Aberdeen, UK

    Marcel Jaspars

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Rodríguez, J., Crews, P., Jaspars, M. (2012). Contemporary Strategies in Natural Products Structure Elucidation. In: Fattorusso, E., Gerwick, W., Taglialatela-Scafati, O. (eds) Handbook of Marine Natural Products. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3834-0_7

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