Visual Guide to NMR Spectroscopy

in Spectroscopy

Belated to get to this, but Jon Chui has made another beautiful graphic. You might recall his Pictorial Guide to Interpreting IR Spectra from awhile back.

Now he’s made a visual guide to Interpreting 1H NMR Spectra, and it’s lovely.

NMR is more information-rich than IR, so the task of putting *everything* on one reasonably sized graphic is an impossible task. But he’s done a great job of capturing the main concepts and key pieces of information to extract (chemical shift, integration, and multiplicity) on one graphic.

Jon has a gift for making these things, and there’s a pressing need for educational materials that not only inform, but incorporate aesthetics and design.  Maybe if enough people nag him, maybe he will keep making more of them. Here is his email. Go ahead and write him (blame me if you like).

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Jon C March 7, 2012 at 2:15 am

Hi James! I saw the trackback to my email. Haha, my conscience nags me all day long already!

Real life interfered (in a good way) with my plans to do more pictorial chemistry. In the past month I looked and found a job, and with an August start, decided on a whim to bus/train from Cape Town -> Copenhagen to visit friends. So there *definitely* won’t be anything from me for at least 2-3 months.

As to the plans after that: I’m trying my hands at more narrative type of work, and in my notebook is a script being fleshed out for explaining chemoreception/olfaction/smell for non-chemists. That is looking like a 20+ page spread, so it’ll take awhile. (My friends helping out with the editing are mostly copy editors; are you interested in editing the content from a chemist’s perspective?) With an IB teaching job coming up, future guides will likely straddle the pre-university and university levels – we’ll see.

See you in a few months! Jon

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