DITERPENE STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION 
(GMD and LAI in cooperation with industrial partner Analyticon Gmbh)

• Natural organic compounds of significant commercial interest
• Used as lead compounds in the search for new drugs
• Given is the C NMR spectrum of the diterpene

including the frequencies and multiplicities for each carbon atom
• The task is to classify the diterpene (spectrum)

into one 23 skeleton groups