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NMR of carbon (AQA A2 Chemistry) PART 2 of 2 TOPICS

Carbon NMR:
Carbon NMR is the same as hydrogen NMR however you look at the different carbon environments
using carbon-13.

The basics that should be known of both types of NMR is covered in another of my documents called
'NMR of Hydrogen'.

Example:

How many different types of peaks would you expect to see using the carbon-13 NMR for this
molecule?
Notice that there are two different carbon environments indicated by the colours
blue and red.

Only two peaks will be appear on the graph where the red peak will be further
away from Si(CH3)4 than the blue peak because the carbon circled in red is closer to
an electronegative element (oxygen).

The peaks will not split like the peaks for the hydrogen NMR because of carbon-13
atoms are so low that it is unlikely that splitting will happen. If it did, it would be too
small to detect.

This is why carbon-13 NMR is much more simpler than hydrogen NMR.

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