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This module examines three important areas of spectroscopy and analytical chemistry.
(i) Spectroscopic methods for structure determination. Material covered includes an introduction to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy; infra-red (IR) spectroscopy - basic theory, the identification of functional groups, mass spectrometry (MS) - basic principles and instrumentation, and an introduction to UV-vis spectroscopy.
(ii) Analytical Chemistry. Material covered includes: an introduction to analytical chemistry and the process of analysis; common measuring techniques and the means by which data is statistically analysed; chemical separations - chromatography.
(iii) Introduction to the Russell-Saunders coupling scheme for electrons on elements with low atomic mass. Use of selection rules in the electric-dipole approximation to predict optical transitions.
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