NMR chemical shifts of xenon in mixed aprotic solvents: A probe of liquid structure

The chemical shift of elemental xenon is extremely sensitive to the environment. In aprotic solvents, the presence of xenon has little effect on the solvent structure, and preferential solvation is not observed in any mixed solvent system. Consequently, xenon shifts can reveal the presence of short range order in certain liquids. Chemical shift data are presented for several model systems, including mixtures of different alkanes, alkanes with benzene, alkanes with acetone, and carbon tetrachloride with dimethylformamide (DMF). In certain cases, the xenon shift is strongly non-linear with composition. This effect arises from a specific interaction between the two solvents in the CCl₄-DMF system, while it reflects short range liquid order in the acetone-alkane systems. This effect is also apparent in the deviation of the densities of the acetone-alkane mixtures from ideality.     

Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of aqueous solutions of alkylureas: Proton and carbon-13 chemical shifts

Aqueous solutions of methylated and ethylated derivatives of urea have been investigated by proton and carbon-13 magnetic resonance technique. The chemical shifts of water protons in solution of alkylureas, relative to that of pure water, are as a measure of the hydrogen-bonding reinforcing or weakening ability of these substances. The dependence of this effect on the concentration and on the temperature has also been studied. The results obtained indicate that different contrasting effects act in these solutions, among then the water structuring effect of the nonpolar surface of the alkylureas and the effect of the volume of the solute.¹³C chemical shifts of the carbonyl groups of the alkylureas give useful information about the interactions between water and the polar part of the ureas. Carbonyl-water interactions exist but are partially destroyed by increasing concentrations of the solute.     

1H chemical shifts in NMR: Part 22-Prediction of the 1H chemical shifts of alcohols, diols and inositols in solution, a conformational and solvation investigation

The (1)H NMR spectra of a number of alcohols, diols and inositols are reported and assigned in CDCl(3), D(2)O and DMSO-d(6) (henceforth DMSO) solutions. These data were used to investigate the effects of the OH group on the (1)H chemical shifts in these molecules and also the effect of changing the solvent. Inspection of the (1)H chemical shifts of those alcohols which were soluble in both CDCl(3) and D(2)O shows that there is no difference in the chemical shifts in the two solvents, provided that the molecules exist in the same conformation in the two solvents. In contrast, DMSO gives rise to significant and specific solvation shifts. The (1)H chemical shifts of these compounds in the three solvents were analysed using the CHARGE model. This model incorporates the electric field, magnetic anisotropy and steric effects of the functional group for long-range protons together with functions for the calculation of the two- and three-bond effects. The long-range effect of the OH group was quantitatively explained without the inclusion of either the C--O bond anisotropy or the C--OH electric field. Differential beta and gamma effects for the 1,2-diol group needed to be included to obtain accurate chemical shift predictions. For DMSO solution the differential solvent shifts were calculated in CHARGE on the basis of a similar model, incorporating two-bond, three-bond and long-range effects. The analyses of the (1)H spectra of the inositols and their derivatives in D(2)O and DMSO solution also gave the ring (1)H,(1)H coupling constants and for DMSO solution the CH--OH couplings and OH chemical shifts. The (1)H,(1)H coupling constants were calculated in the CHARGE program by an extension of the cos(2)phi equation to include the orientation effects of electronegative atoms and the CH--OH couplings by a simple cos(2)phi equation. Comparison of the observed and calculated couplings confirmed the proposed conformations of myo-inositol, chiro-inositol, quebrachitol and allo-inositol. The OH chemical shifts were also calculated in the CHARGE program. Comparison of the observed and calculated OH chemical shifts and CH.OH couplings suggested the existence of intramolecular hydrogen bonding in a myo-inositol derivative.     

Comparison of the substituent effects on the 13C NMR with the 1H NMR chemical shifts of CHN in substituted benzylideneanilines

Fifty‐two samples of substituted benzylideneanilines XPhCH?NPhYs (XBAYs) were synthesized, and their NMR spectra were determined in this paper. Together with the NMR data of other 77 samples of XBAYs quoted from literatures, the ¹H NMR chemical shifts (δ_H(CH?N)) and ¹³C NMR chemical shifts (δ_C(CH?N)) of the CH?N bridging group were investigated for total of 129 samples of XBAYs. The result shows that the δ_H(CH?N) and δ_C(CH?N) have no distinctive linear relationship, which is contrary to the theoretical thought that declared the δ_H(CH?N) values would increase as the δ_C(CH?N) values increase. With the in‐depth analysis, we found that the effects of σ_F and σ_R of X/Y group on the δ_H(CH?N) and the δ_C(CH?N) are opposite; the effects of the substituent specific cross‐interaction effect between X and Y (Δσ²) on the δ_H(CH?N) and the δ_C(CH?N) are different; the contributions of parameters in the regression equations of the δ_H(CH?N) and the δ_C(CH?N) [Eqns 4 and 7), respectively] also have an obvious difference. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

1H chemical shifts in NMR: Part 23, the effect of dimethyl sulphoxide versus chloroform solvent on 1H chemical shifts

The 1H chemical shifts of 124 compounds containing a variety of functional groups have been recorded in CDCl3 and DMSO-d6 (henceforth DMSO) solvents. The 1H solvent shift Delta delta = delta(DMSO) - delta(CDCl3) varies from -0.3 to +4.6 ppm. This solvent shift can be accurately predicted (rms error 0.05 ppm) using the charge model of alpha, beta, gamma and long-range contributions. The labile protons of alcohols, acids, amines and amides give both, the largest solvent shifts and the largest errors. The contributions for the various groups are tabulated and it is shown that for H.C.C.X gamma-effects (X = OH, NH, =O, NH.CO) there is a dihedral angle dependence of the gamma-effect. The group contributions are discussed in terms of the possible solvent-solute interactions. For protic hydrogens, hydrogen bonding is the dominant interaction, but for the remaining protons solvent anisotropy and electric field effects appear to be the major factors.     

The hydrophobic effect in aqueous solutions of nonelectrolytes. I. Self-interactions of alkylureas

In order to clarify some aspects of the hydrophobic interactions, the enthalpies of dilution of monoethylurea, 1,3-dimethylurea, and 1,3-diethylurea have been determined calorimetrically at 25°C. The calorimetric data, expressed in terms of excess enthalpy, permit the evaluation of the pair and triplet interaction coefficients. The analyses of these and of the analogous coefficientsg _xx andg _xxx, derived from osmotic data, indicate a driving force favorable to the interactions among the hydrated solute molecules. Nevertheless, the positive values of theh _xx andh _xxx coefficients seem to suggest that the source of the effect is a rearrangement of the water molecules rather than a direct association of the solute molecules. There are evidences of a strict correlation between the enthalpic and the entropic effects. Preliminary data were presented at the International Conferences on Chemical Thermodynamics at Baden (1973) and Montpellier (1975). The experimental part was carried out at the Istituto Chimico of the University of Trieste. To whom correspondence should be addressed.     

Self-assembly of short peptide amphiphiles: the cooperative effect of hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen bonding

The interplay between hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interaction and the molecular geometry of amino acid side-chains is crucial to the development of nanostructures of short peptide amphiphiles. An important step towards developing their practical use is to understand how different amino acid side-chains tune hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen bonding and how this process leads to the control of the size and shape of the nanostructures. In this study, we have designed and synthesized three sets of short amphiphilic peptides (I(3)K, LI(2)K and L(3)K; L(3)K, L(4)K and L(5)K; I(3)K, I(4)K and I(5)K) and investigated how I and L affected their self-assembly in aqueous solution. The results have demonstrated a strong tendency of I groups to promote the growth of β-sheet hydrogen bonding and the subsequent formation of nanofibrillar shapes. All I(m)K (m = 3-5) peptides assembled into nanofibers with consistent β-sheet conformation, whereas the nanofiber diameters decreased as m increased due to geometrical constraint in peptide chain packing. In contrast, L groups had a weak tendency to promote β-sheet structuring and their hydrophobicity became dominant and resulted in globular micelles in L(3)K assembly. However, increase in the number of hydrophobic sequences to L(5)K induced β-sheet conformation due to the cooperative hydrophobic effect and the consequent formation of long nanofibers. The assembly of L(4)K was, therefore, intermediate between L(3)K and L(5)K, similar to the case of LI(2)K within the set of L(3)K, LI(2)K and I(3)K, with a steady transition from the dominance of hydrophobic interaction to hydrogen bonding. Thus, changes in hydrophobic length and swapping of L and I can alter the size and shape of the self-assembled nanostructures from these simple peptide amphiphiles.     

Density functional calculations of NMR chemical shifts and ESR g-tensors

An overview is given on recent advances of density functional theory (DFT) as applied to the calculation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) chemical shifts and electron spin resonance (ESR) g-tensors. This is a new research area that has seen tremendous progress and success recently; we try to present some of these developments. DFT accounts for correlation effects efficiently. Therefore, it is the only first-principle method that can handle NMR calculations on large systems like transition-metal complexes. Relativistic effects become important for heavier element compounds; here we show how they can be accounted for. The ESR g-tensor is related conceptually to the NMR shielding, and results of g-tensor calculations are presented. DFT has been very successful in its application to magnetic properties, for metal complexes in particular. However, there are still certain shortcomings and limitations, e.g., in the exchange-correlation functional, that are discussed as well. Received: 24 October 1997 / Accepted: 19 December 1997     

1H NMR spectra part 31: 1H chemical shifts of amides in DMSO solvent

The ¹H chemical shifts of 48 amides in DMSO solvent are assigned and presented. The solvent shifts Δδ (DMSO‐CDCl₃) are large (1–2 ppm) for the NH protons but smaller and negative (?0.1 to ?0.2 ppm) for close range protons. A selection of the observed solvent shifts is compared with calculated shifts from the present model and from GIAO calculations. Those for the NH protons agree with both calculations, but other solvent shifts such as Δδ(CHO) are not well reproduced by the GIAO calculations. The ¹H chemical shifts of the amides in DMSO were analysed using a functional approach for near ( ≤ 3 bonds removed) protons and the electric field, magnetic anisotropy and steric effect of the amide group for more distant protons. The chemical shifts of the NH protons of acetanilide and benzamide vary linearly with the π density on the αN and βC atoms, respectively. The C=O anisotropy and steric effect are in general little changed from the values in CDCl₃. The effects of substituents F, Cl, Me on the NH proton shifts are reproduced. The electric field coefficient for the protons in DMSO is 90% of that in CDCl₃. There is no steric effect of the C=O oxygen on the NH proton in an NH…O=C hydrogen bond. The observed deshielding is due to the electric field effect. The calculated chemical shifts agree well with the observed shifts (RMS error of 0.106 ppm for the data set of 257 entries). Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Parameters of the interaction between components; structural and hydrophobic effects in systems water-ethylene glycol-n-butyl alcohol and water-ethanol-xenon at 248–348 K

At 298.15 K the interaction parameters have been determined in six ternary systems: water-alcohol (MeOH, EtOH, EG (ethylene-glycol))-the dissolved substance (PrOH, BuOH, Xe). It is found for the coefficients of pair interactions that h ₂₃(EG-BuOH) = h ₂₃(MeOH-BuOH), c ₂₃(EG-BuOH) ? c ₂₃(MeOH-BuOH) < 0. Interactions become more hydrophobic in a series: EG-BuOH ≈ EG-Xe < MeOH-PrOH < MeOH-BuOH≤EtOH-Xe < EtOH-PrOH. For two systems the interaction parameters are defined in an interval 248–348 K. Temperature dependence of enthalpy and heat capacity coefficients of pair interactions, thermal capacity of transfer, an excess heat capacity and their constituents is discussed.     

Proton chemical shifts in NMR: Part 17. Chemical shifts in alkenes and anisotropic and steric effects of the double bond

The ¹H NMR spectra of a number of alkenes of known geometry were recorded in CDCl₃ solution and assigned, namely ethylene, propene, 4-methylcyclohexene, 1,4-dimethylcyclohexene, methylene cyclohexane (in CFCl₃–CD₂Cl₂ at 153 K), 5-methylene-2-norbornene, camphene, bicyclopentadiene, styrene and 9-vinylanthracene. These results together with literature data for other alkenes, i.e. 1,3- and 1,4-cyclohexadiene, norbornene, norbornadiene, bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene and α- and β-pinene, and other data allowed the determination of the olefinic shielding in these molecules. The shielding was analysed in terms of the magnetic anisotropy and steric effects of the double bond together with a model (CHARGE7) for the calculation of the two- and three-bond electronic effects. For the aromatic alkenes ring current and π-electron effects were included. This analysis showed that the double bond shielding arises from both anisotropic and steric effects. The anisotropy is due to the perpendicular term only with a value of Δχ(CC) of −12.1 × 10⁻⁶cm³mol⁻¹. There is also a steric deshielding term of 82.5/r⁶ (r in Å). The shielding along the π-axis changes sign from shielding at long range (>2.5 Å) to deshielding at short range (<2 Å). The model gives the first comprehensive calculation of the shielding of the alkene group. For the data set considered (172 proton chemical shifts) ranging from δ=0.48 to 8.39, the r.m.s. error of observed vs calculated shifts was 0.11 ppm. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Applicability of the H NMR chemical shifts computed by the ab initio/GIAO-HF methodology to the study of geometrical features of Zn-porphyrin dimers

Several porphyrin dimers have been newly designed and synthesized to construct assemblies with 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) as a bidentate binding ligand. Semi empirical (AM1) and ab initio calculations have been used to study the assemblies generated by the organization of dimers and DABCO, including the computation of ¹H NMR complexation-induced chemical shifts using the ab initio/GIAO methodology. The diagnostic capacity of the theoretical method has been applied to explain experimental results and geometrical features of the complexes.     

Normal halogen dependence of 13C NMR chemical shifts of halogenomethanes revisited at the four‐component relativistic level

The ‘Normal Halogen Dependence’ of ¹³C NMR chemical shifts in the series of halogenomethanes is revisited at the four‐component relativistic level. Calculations of ¹³C NMR chemical shifts of 70 halogenomethanes have been carried out at the density functional theory (DFT) and MP2 levels with taking into account relativistic effects using the four‐component relativistic theory of Dirac‐Coulomb within the different computational methods (4RPA, 4OPW91) and hybrid computational schemes (MP2 + 4RPA, MP2 + 4OPW91). The most efficient computational protocols are derived for practical purposes. Relativistic shielding effect reaches as much as several hundreds of ppm for heavy halogenomethanes, and to account for this effect in comparison with experiment at the qualitative level, relativistic Dyall's basis sets of triple‐zeta quality or higher are to be used within the framework of the four‐component relativistic theory taking into account solvent effects. Relativistic geometrical optimization (as compared with the non‐relativistic level) is essential for the molecules containing at least two iodines at one carbon atom. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Structural investigation on phenyl‐ and pyridin‐2‐ylamino(methylene)naphthalen‐2(3H)‐one. Substituent effects on the NMR chemical shifts

Schiff bases bearing phenyl and pyridyl groups were synthesized by condensation of appropriate amines with 2‐hydroxynaphthaldehyde. These Schiff bases were obtained as colored crystalline solids. The proton NMR spectra of these compounds showed a doublet for the NH protons indicating a keto tautomer for these Schiff bases. The pyridyl‐substituted Schiff bases containing hydroxyl moiety were found to show the most downfield shift for the NH protons in DMSO solvent, and this was rationalized due to the formation of a six‐ and five‐membered ring using hydrogen bonds for these two compounds. Correspondingly, the olefinic proton of the Schiff bases is also found to be a doublet due to coupling to the amine proton. These Schiff bases exhibited thermochromic properties. Detailed NMR spectral analysis for both the phenyl‐ and pyridyl‐substituted Schiff bases is presented. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Methods for parallel computation of SCF NMR chemical shifts by GIAO method: Efficient integral calculation,multi-Fock algorithm,and pseudodiagonalization

We implemented our gauge-including atomic orbital (GIAO) NMR chemical shielding program on a workstation cluster, using the parallel virtual machine (PVM) message-passing system. On a modest number of nodes, we achieved close to linear speedup. This program is characterized by several novel features. It uses the new integral program of Wolinski that calculates integrals in vectorized batches, increases efficiency, and simplifies parallelization. The self-consistent field (SCF) step includes a multi-Fock algorithm, i.e., the simultaneous calculation of several Fock matrices with the same integral set, increasing the efficiency of the direct SCF procedure. The SCF diagonalization step, which is difficult to parallelize, has been replaced by pseudodiagonalization. The latter, widely used in semiempirical programs, becomes important in ab initio type calculations above a certain size, because the ultimate scaling of the diagonalization step is steeper than that of integral computation. Examples of the calculation of the NMR shieldings in large systems at the SCF level are shown. Parallelization of the density functional code is underway. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Comput Chem 18: 816–825, 1997     

A computer program for the automatic estimation of H NMR chemical shifts

A computer program has been developed for predicting ¹H NMR chemical shifts. It automatically finds the various substructures of a given molecule for which additivity rules are available. Several strategies have been used to widen the range of applicability. with 200 test compounds, over 90% of the assigned chemical shifts of protons bonded to a carbon atom could be predicted. The mean deviation between observed and predicted values was 0.08 ppm with a standard deviation of 0.19ppm.     

A study of the 17O carbonyl chemical shifts in substituted benzaldehydes

An analysis of 17O carbonyl chemical shifts of 50 substituted benzaldehydes leads to an empirical equation, delta(cal)(17O) = 564.0 + (sigma)(delta)o + (sigma)(delta)m + (sigma)(delta)p + C, for calculating 17O chemical shifts. This equation is based on a linear regression analysis using 11 substituent parameters and leads to good conformity with the expected data.     

Structures of polychlorinated naphthalenes and oxynaphthalenes and their13C NMR chemical shifts

The increment scheme for calculating chemical shifts of polysubstituted naphthalenes is based on 1- and 2-substituted heterosubgraphs which describe the main part of the substituent effect. The influence of several substituents on¹³C NMR chemical shifts have been described by two-particle increments corresponding to 1,2- and 2,3-ortho-disubstituted heterosubgraphs (the steric interaction of substituents in the same ring) and also to 1,4-conjugation of the substituents. Conjugation of two benzene rings required the introduction of a two-particle 1,8-heterosubgraph to the increment system. The systems of two-particle increments were obtained for polychlorinated naphthalenes, oxynaphthalenes, and polychlorinated oxynaphthalenes. Predicted¹³C NMR spectra of polychlorinated naphthalenes not included in the increment analysis proved to be in good agreement with independent measurements.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp.625–628, April, 1994.     

Substituent effects on 15N and 13C NMR chemical shifts of 3-phenylisoxazoles: a theoretical and spectroscopic study

The synthesis and assignment of 15N and 13C NMR signals of the isoxazole ring in a series of para-substituted 3-phenyl derivatives are reported. DFT calculations of 15N and 13C chemical shifts are presented and compared to observed values. Substituent effects are interpreted in terms of the Hammett correlation and calculated bond orders.