Student Learning Outcomes:

• Explain the main principles and features underlying NMR spectroscopy.
• Explain how a typical continuous wave spectrometer operates.
• Appraise the reasons responsible for the difference in behavior observed in NMR experiments for the proton nuclei of compounds.
  
• Determine key regions and peaks within an NMR spectrum.
  
• Interpret proton chemical shifts associated with different functional groups.
  
• Gauge the influence of hydrogen bonding and solvent effects on NMR chemical shifts.
  
• Distinguish spectral information from solvent and standard reference NMR signals.
  
• Explain how upfield and downfield directions relate to chemical shift (ppm) on the H-NMR spectrum.
  
• Apply the n+1 rule to estimate the number of neighboring protons based on the number of peaks on the H-NMR spectra.
  
• Correlate deshielding and spin-spin coupling to changes in NMR spectra.
  
• Explain the reason for doublet, triplet, and quartet coupling patterns (both multiplicity and intensity).