This course (Spectroscopic Methods in Organic Chemistry) focuses on the methods of characterization of isolated natural products (fungal, marine and terrestrial sources), derivatives of natural products and synthetic organic molecules of pharmacological importance. The new molecular entities isolated / synthesized are studied by these methods, which require only 5-10 mg quantity of the analyte as compare to chemical methods of analyses, to elucidate their structure. This course is a foundation course for Advance NMR (CHEM-7140) and advance MS (CHEM-7150) courses of MPhil with Organic Chemistry specialization.

The practical work involves the synthesis of small molecules and comparative study of IR, UV, NMR and MS spectra of substrate and product.