Many students find the analysis of non-overlapping first-order coupling patterns in NMR spectra difficult. To a large extent, this is a result of the way that they are presented in NMR texts. The student is presented with a singlet that is then progressively split into multiplets to give the desired coupling pattern. In order to interpret a real spectrum, the student needs to interpret each multiplet and frequently tries to do this as taught by starting with a singlet and thinking of how to construct the multiplet. This is a very difficult task for any but the simplest of multiplets. The analysis of any well resolved first-order multiplet is actually a trivial exercise. There are some very simple rules that make the analysis a simple exercise.
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