Carbon-13 NMR | A-level Chemistry | AQA, OCR, Edexcel

In this video we’ll look at Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance and how the application of NMR to carbon allows the identification of carbon atoms in an organic molecule. We’ll learn how to use the information provided by the chemical shifts in order to indicate our environments (i.e. the groups attached to our carbons) and see some spectra as examples. Then we’ll discuss how to interpret the number and position of lines in our spectra to get information on our possible structures and how we can predict the spectra by using the formula of our molecule and the data sheet. In conclusion, we’ll look at an exam style question.