Reject NMR, Return To IR Spectroscopy

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Reject NMR, Return To IR Spectroscopy

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The eternal struggle between spectroscopy techniques has reached new heights! This chemist has clearly had enough of complex NMR experiments with their fancy pulse sequences and cryptic acronyms like HSQC and DQF-COSY.

Every organic chemist knows the pain of staring at those confusing 2D plots only to realize you've spent 3 hours collecting data that basically says "yep, that's a methyl group." Meanwhile, IR spectroscopy is over there like "Hey, I could've told you about those functional groups in 2 minutes flat!"

The conspiracy theory that NMR was invented by "evil wizards" to torture chemistry grad students seems increasingly plausible with each crashed overnight experiment. And let's be honest - sometimes you just want to identify your compound without needing a PhD in quantum mechanics and signal processing.

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