Spectroscopy — ¹H NMR structure elucidation
From weighing the sample into CDCl₃ to an assigned structure: lock and shim, pulse and acquire the FID, Fourier transform and phase, then read chemical shift, integration and multiplicity, confirming with ¹³C and 2-D experiments.
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