What are the tools which permit solving chemical structure? ◆Elemental analysis ◆Mass spectrometry Ultra Violt,Infra Red,Raman,Circular Dichroism Nuclear Magnetic Resonance:proton, carbon-13 ◆X-ray diffraction Chemistry Structure Elucidation During all of the 19th century and most of the early half of the 20th century,natural produet structure elucidation was an art that depended almost entirely on the power of chemical synthesis,or,more specifically,on the effectiveness of degradation or derivatization processes,to reveal the architectural design of a molecule.Assuming both that gram quantities of the substance under investigation were available and that the chemical transformations employed proceeded along expected lines,researchers of that era might have expected to solve their molecular puzzles after a few years of painstaking effort. 16 88 15 What are the tools which permit What are the tools which permit solving chemical structure? solving chemical structure? u Elemental analysis u Mass spectrometry u Ultra Violt, Infra Red, Raman, Circular Dichroism u Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: proton, carbon-13 u X-ray diffraction u Chemistry 16 Structure Elucidation Structure Elucidation During all of the 19th century and most of the early half of the 20th century, natural product structure elucidation was an art that depended almost entirely on the power of chemical synthesis, or, more specifically, on the effectiveness of degradation or derivatization processes, to reveal the architectural design of a molecule. Assuming both that gram quantities of the substance under investigation were available and that the chemical transformations employed proceeded along expected lines, researchers of that era might have expected to solve their molecular puzzles after a few years of painstaking effort