What happens when an organic chemist makes a new molecule?
How do they know what the structure of the new molecule is?
They use lots of different techniques to determine the molecular mass and structure of the new molecule, one of which is mass spectroscopy.
Mass spectroscopy tells you the molecular mass of the molecule, and, it gives a good indication of how the atoms making up the molecule are put together. And it does this by breaking the molecule up!
Find out more about how mass spectroscopy can be used to determine the structure of organic molecules in our tutorial
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