Describe how you could use NMR to differentiate between the two molecules below by investigating the splitting patterns.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the study of molecules by recording the interaction of radio frequency (Rf) electromagnetic radiation with the nuclei of molecules placed in a strong magnetic field.

Now, the number of NMR signals represents the number of different types of protons in the molecule.
Protons are grouped into types based on their environment.
For example- methane has four protons, they are all bonded to the same atoms and have the same neighbors on all sides—in other words, they are said to be equivalent because they are in the same environment.

Such equivalent hydrogens give one signal in the NMR spectra.

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