Structure Elucidation in Organic Chemistry

In 13 chapters, this monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in structure and interaction analysis of molecules and systems with a variety of complexity.
* Introduction: different manifestations of the interaction of light with matter
* Computational spectroscopy tools for molecular structural analysis
* Absolute Configuration and Conformational Analysis of Chiral Compounds via Chiroptical Methods: ORD, ECD, and VCD
* Mass Spectrometry Strategies in the Assigment of Molecular Structures
* Vibrational Infrared and Raman Spectra. Applications in molecular characterization
* Solid-state NMR: Principles and Application to Small Molecules
* Simplified NMR Procedures for the Assignment of the Absolute Configuration
* Structural elucidation of small organic molecules assisted by NMR in aligned media
* NMR methods for the study of transient interactions
* Analysis of molecular interactions by surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy
* X-ray crystallography for conformational and configurational studies
* An Integrated Approach to Structure Verification using Automated Procedures
* On the search for the right techniques for structural elucidation of small molecules