Classics In Spectroscopy

The first book of its kind to describe the art of NMR using everyday examples.
This textbook will not only fascinate students wanting to learn about the topic, but also those experienced analytical chemists who are still inspired by their profession.
The contents provide for easy reading by using natural products that everyone knows, such as caffeine, backed by an attractive layout with many pictures to visualize the topics.
In addition, an in-depth analytical part makes the book a valuable teaching tool, or for self-learning using the questions and answers at the end of each chapter.

From a review by K.C. Nicolaou:
...a splendid composition of essays on molecules and their natural origins, isolation, spectra and properties. As an extra bonus, the reader enjoys a collection of fascinating and colorful images and historical vignettes associated with each of the natural products covered. I found it both beautiful and educational, and recommend it highly to students and practitioners of chemistry alike.

Stefan Berger is professor for structural analytics at the University of Leipzig. Besides his many publications he wrote and edited several books among them 100/150/200 and more basic NMR Experiments, NMR Spectroscopy of non-metals, and 13C-NMR-Spectroscopy.
Dieter Sicker is adjunct professor at the University of Leipzig. His current research involves him in natural product and heterocycles synthesis and carbohydrate chemistry.

The authors have succeeded perfectly in selecting 30 of the most important natural products from the large number of known ones, and in presenting their structure elucidation in an especially attractive form. ( Angewandte Chemistry, September 2009)

Preface.
ALKALOIDS.
Nicotine.
Caffeine.
Theobromine.
Piperine.
Cytisine.
Galanthamine.
Strychnine.
AROMATIC COMPOUNDS.
Anethole.
Eugenol.
Chamazulene.
Tetrahydrocannabinol.
DYESTUFFS AND COLOURED COMPOUNDS.
Lawsone.
Curcumin.
Brazileine.
Indigo.
Capsanthin.
CARBOHYDRATES.
Glucosamine.
Lactose.
Amygdalin.
Hesperidin.
TERPENOIDS.
Limonene.
Menthol.
The Thujones.
Patchouli Alcohol.
Onocerin.
Cnicin.
Abietic Acid.
Betulinic Acid.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Shikimic Acid.
Aleuritic Acid.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS.
Appendix.