Spectroscopy and Structure Determination Flashcards
What is spectroscopy?
A technique used to determine the structure of a compound
What in spectroscopy is often used to determine structure?
Material’s absorption or emission of energy in a defined portion of the electromagnetic spectrum
What is absorption spectroscopy?
Spectroscopy that measures the amount of light absorbed by the sample as a function of wavelength.
Most spectroscopy techniques are ______________
Nondestructive
What is infrared spectroscopy?
Spectroscopy that measures the bond vibration frequencies in a molecule and is used to determine a functional group
What is mass spectroscopy?
Spectroscopy that fragments the molecule and measures their mass.
What information can be obtained using mass spectroscopy?
Mass spectroscopy can give the molecular weight of the compound and functional groups
What is Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy?
NNR spectroscopy analyzes the environment of the hydrogens in a compound which gives useful clues to alkyl and other functional groups present
What is Ultraviolet Spectroscopy?
Spectroscopy that uses electronic transitions to determine bonding patterns
Which of the following spectroscopy does NOT use absorption spectroscopy?
UV spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, MS spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy
Mass spectroscopy
Why is electromagnetic radiation said to have dual behavior?
Behaves as a particle(photon) in some some respects and a wave in other respects
Due to its wave like behavior, electromagnetic radiation can be characterized by….
A frequency
A wavelength
An amplitude
What is the amplitude of the wave?
The height of the wave measured from midpoint to peak
In electromagnetic radiation, intensity of radiant energy is proportional to…
To the square if the Wave’s amplitude
What is the intensity of radiant energy of a feeble glow?
It is proportional to the square of the wave’s amplitude
What is wavelength?
The distance between any 2 peaks or any two troughs of the wave
What is the frequency of a wave?
The number of complete cycles that pass a fixed point in a second
Define the speed of light in terms of electromagnetic radiation
The rate of travel of all electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum
Frequency and wavelength are __________ ______
Inversely proportional
What is the speed and of a wave(speed of light for electromagnetic waves)
C= frequency x wavelength
What is the speed of light?
3x 10^10cm/sec
What are the units of electromagnetic radiation?
Quanta
What does planks equation represent?
The amount of energy corresponding to 1 quanta of energy or 1 photon of a given frequency
Give 2 formulas for energy
Energy = plank’s constant x frequency
Energy= plank’s constant x c/ wavelength (c=speed of light)
What is plank’s constant(h)?
6.62x10^-37kj sec
What is the wavelength of visible light?
10^-4cm
What is the energy of visible light?
10^2kj/mol
What is the wavelength off gamma rays?
10^-9cm
What is the energy of vacuum UV?
10^3
What is the wavelength of Infrared radiation?
10^-3
What is the wavelength of a microwave?
10^-1
What is the energy of infrared energy?
10 kJ/mol
What happens to organic compounds when exposed to electromagnetic radiation?
It absorbs energy of certain wavelengths but transmits energy of other wavelengths
What are the wavelengths if the infrared region?
2.5x10^-4 to 25x10^-4
Describe the region of IR region?
From right below the visible region to just above the highest microwave and radar frequencies
What are wavenumbers?
The reciprocals of Wavelength (cm^-1)
What is the primary use of IR spectroscopy and why?
To identify vibrational frequencies as it uses vibrations which may coincide with vibrational modes within a molecule like bind stretching and bond angle bending that occurs in all molecules that occur above temperatures above absolute zero.
What is the wavelength of of X rays?
10 ^-7 cm or 700nm to 1mm