How do you identify different proton environments, when a displayed structure of a compound is given. For example propan-1-ol
Propan-1-ol - CH
3-CH
2-CH
2-OH
There are four different proton environments.
3H's in CH
3 environment.
1H in OH environment.
2H's in each CH
2While using the Low NMR spectra.
When studying low-resolution proton NMR there are two things to look out for:
• The number of peaks, which gives the number of different proton environments.
• The area under each peak, which gives an idea of the number of protons (hydrogens) in each environment.