These spectra carry information about a chemical compound that Richard Schrock produced in 1973. The spectra are produced with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), a method where radio waves are used to map molecular structure and composition. This chemical compound was a decisive step in the development of new ways of assembling organic molecules. Schrock’s methods amounted to facilitating metathesis. This means that the double bonds between carbon atoms are broken and reorganised at the same time as atomic groups change place.
Richard Schrock donated the spectra to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2018.
