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One fluorine-19 NMR resonance, integrating to three equivalent fluorine nuclei, appears as a doublet of doublets with and . This predicts four principal lines of equal intensity, from coupling to and , respectively. Relative to the unknown resonance centre, their offsets are and .
Equivalent fluorine nuclei do not split one another. This prediction assumes ordinary proton-coupled acquisition; proton decoupling would collapse these four principal lines to a singlet. The proton and carbon spectra do not determine the numerical fluorine chemical shift. Weak natural-abundance carbon-13 satellites could accompany the principal pattern.

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