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

Magdalena Cid received her PhD from the Universidade of Santiago de Compostela in 1990 and did postdoctoral stages in Sandoz Pharma, now Novartis (Basel, Switzerland) and The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA, USA) mainly dealing with synthesis of nitrogen-containing compounds. In 1996 she joined the Universidade de Vigo where she has become an associate professor. She is interested in the design, synthesis and characterization of chiral (macro)molecules and the usage of chiroptical properties and NMR (scalar and dipolar coupling constants) for total elucidation of their structures.Jorge Bravo is professor in the department of inorganic chemistry at the University of Vigo. His research interests encompass organometallic chemistry of group 7 - 9 metals, the development of water-soluble complexes, and their structure elucidation. He joined the University of Vigo in 1978.