Introduction, instrumentation, molecular ion-production, determination of molecular  weight – molecular ion peak, base peak, nitrogen rule, isotope peak, metastable ions; fragmentation – basic fragmentation types and rules, factors influencing fragmentation, McLafferty rearrangement, fragmentation pattern of hydrocarbons, alcohols, ethers, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids, amines, nitro compounds, alicyclic and heterocyclic compounds.
Combined applications of IR, UV, NMR and Mass spectral techniques  for identification of simple organic molecules.