Asked by brooke

Two students are running C-13 nmr, one student has pare-xylene and the other has meta-xylene. Explain how they will be able to distinguish the two spectra.
Answered by gary
the p-xylene has a singlet peak around 7.0 ppm that integrates to 4 hydrogens. The m-xylene has a triplet peak around 7.0 ppm that integrates to 4 hydrogens