Chapter 1 Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes are summarized lists of the main ideas/skills that students should take away from a chapter. “Learning Outcomes” lists are not exhaustive; there may be other ideas/skills covered in the chapter that are also useful but not necessarily the main focus.

For Chapter 1 the Learning Outcomes are:

1. Understand the fundamentals of how NMR spectroscopy works.
2. Determine the number of chemically distinct hydrogen types using ¹H NMR data (interpret the number of signals).
3. Determine the number hydrogens of each type using ¹H NMR data (interpret the integrations).
4. Determine potential functional groups using ¹H NMR data (interpret the chemical shifts).
5. Determine the number of chemically distinct adjacent hydrogens using ¹H NMR (interpret the multiplicities).
6. Predict and draw ¹H NMR spectral information from a molecular structure, including the number of signals, the relative integrations of signals, the chemical shifts of signals, and the multiplicities of signals.
7. Generate and draw the most plausible molecular structure from a given ¹H NMR spectrum, including generating fragments of the structure by interpreting details of the spectrum.
8. Understand and determine the topicity relationship between two hydrogen atoms in a molecule.
9. Determine the number of chemically distinct carbon types and potential functional groups using ¹³C NMR spectra.
10. Determine the number of hydrogen atoms attached to a carbon using DEPT spectra.