Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Chemical shifts of methyl substituted cis-decahydroquinolines

¹⁵N Chemical shifts of cis-decahydroquinoline, N-methyl-cis-decahydroquinoline, and of 19 methyl substituted NH- and NCH₃-cis-decahydroquinolines are reported. Shift values of conformationally homogeneous compounds can be used to determine the chemical shifts of the possible conformations of the mobile compounds. Equilibrium constants derived from the shifts of the contributing conformations agree with results of low temperature ¹³C NMR spectroscopy.     

Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of ketenimines

Nitrogen-15 NMR spectra of 11 ketenimines have been taken both at the natural-abundance level of ¹⁵N and with the aid of ¹⁵N-labeling. The nitrogen chemical shifts are substantially different from those of neutral imines and are upfield, more like those of protonated imines. The results are in accord with significant delocalization of the nitrogen lone-pair. Furthermore, there is a rough parallelism between the ¹³C shifts of the terminal carbons and the ¹⁵N shifts.     

Nitrogen nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Nitrogen-15 and proton chemical shifts of methylanilines and methylanilinium ions

Nitrogen and carbon electron densities of the toluidines and xylidines have been recalculated by the INDO method; previously published errors have been corrected. Although the nitrogen-15 chemical shifts of these compounds still display the earlier suggested correlation with σ and total electron densities, the calculated inverse correlation with proton electron densities has been shown to be incorrect. Methyl proton chemical shifts of these compounds display no meaningful correlation with the nitrogen shifts. The nitrogen chemical shifts of the toluidinium and xylidinium ions correlate moderately well with the ¹³C chemical shifts of the analogous di- and tri-methylbenzenes.     

Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a probe for the study of membrane models

¹⁵N NMR spectroscopy has been used to investigate liposomes from an enriched phospholipid (dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine). It is shown that this probe can yield interesting information on the dynamics of head groups and on some interactions at the lipid–water interface. Even large multilamellar vesicles give rise to narrow, symmetrical signals, with a maximum nuclear Overhauser effect over the phase transition temperature. The sensitivity of the technique as regards structural changes was demonstrated by a complete study made between 20 and 60°C.     

Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. 15N?19F coupling constants in fluoropyridines and fluoroanilines

Two-to five-bond ¹⁵N? ¹⁹F coupling constants have been determined for fluoropyridines, 8-fluoroquinoline, fluoroanilines and fluoroaniline derivatives. Only in 2-fluoropyridine is J(NF) large, and this is associated with a lone pair mediated enhancement of the coupling. Values in fluoroanilines and derivatives are <2Hz. Except for the fluoroanilines themselves, J(NF) decreases inversely with the number of intervening bonds. In the anilines, only ⁵J(NF) is observable. Possible influences of lone pair interaction and hydrogen bonding are discussed.     

Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Natural abundance nitrogen-15 spectra of the cis and trans isomers of secondary alkylformamides

The ¹⁵NMR chemical shifts were measured of a number of N-substituted formamides and acetamides at the natural abundance level. The ratios of the cis and trans isomers for several N-alkylformamides were also determined. Substituent effects on the ¹⁵N chemical shifts of formamides are compared with those of some other nitrogen-containing compounds. There is a consistent pattern of behavior of the one bond spin–spin coupling constants [¹J(¹⁵NH)] wherein the trans isomers of N-alkylformamides are larger than those of the cis isomers.     

Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of isocyanates,isothiocyanates and N-sulfinylamines

The ¹⁵N NMR spectra of ten isocyanates, four isothiocyanates, and four N-sulfinylamines have been obtained at the natural-abundance level by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. The results show that isocyanates and isothiocyanates have ¹⁵N chemical shifts over 200 ppm toward higher fields compared to those of N-sulfinylamines. The sensitivity of the ¹⁵N shifts in these substances to substituent and electronic effects are discussed.     

Nitrogen-14 nuclear magnetic resonance of azine-N-oxides

The ¹⁴N NMR chemical shifts of mono-N-oxides of 1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,4-diazine systems in mono-, bi, and tri-cyclic structures are shown to depend linearly on the π-charge density at the oxide nitrogen atom obtained from SCF-PPP-MO calculations. The ¹⁴N NMR chemical shifts in poly-azine-mono-N-oxides relative to parent structures of mono-azine-N-oxides may be expressed in terms of additivity rules for 1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,4-interactions of azine type nitrogen atoms. Simple additivity rules are also found for an influence of fused ring systems. Nitrogen chemical shifts, hitherto unknown, are predicted for a number of poly-azine-mono-N-oxide structures.     

Nitrogen-15 magnetic resonance spectroscopy XVI—natural-abundance spectra of aromatic amines

The ¹⁵N chemical shifts of aniline, the toluidines, xylidines, and several halogen and oxygen substituted anilines have been measured at the natural abundance level of ¹⁵N. Substituent parameters obtained by multiple regression analysis show that the methyl group induces comparable upfield shifts at the ortho and para positions (2·37 and 2·55 ppm/methyl, respectively) and a small (0·77 ppm/methyl) upfield shift at the meta position. The chemical shifts correlate reasonably well with ¹⁹F shifts of similarly substituted fluorobenzenes, with C-1 of the anilines themselves and with Hammett sigma values. While the shifts of C-methyl substituted anilines do not correlate with the methyl resonances of corresponding polymethylbenzenes, those of the halo- and alkoxyanilines show a reasonable parallelism with corresponding ¹³C-methyl shifts. The results are interpreted in terms of possible modes of transmission of electron density in an alternating and additive manner through the sigma framework.     

Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. N?H proton exchange reactions of urea and substituted ureas

Proton-coupled nitrogen-15 NMR spectra of urea, N-methylurea, N,-N′-dimethylurea, N-methyl-N′-benzylurea and N-phenylurea have been obtained at natural abundance level in neutral, basic and acidic solutions at 25°C. Base-catalyzed N? H proton exchange of the ? NH₂ group of N-methylurea in water was found to be 1.5 times faster than that for the -NH- group, while the corresponding acid-catalyzed exchange is 7.5 times faster. Comparison of urea and N,-N′-dimethylurea in water shows urea to be 10 times faster in base but 2 times slower in acid. The ratio of the base-catalyzed N? H proton exchanges of the two -NH- groups of N-methyl-N′-benzylurea in dimethyl sulfoxide is close to unity, whereas the CH₃NH- group exchanges 4 times faster in acid. Similarly, the C₆H₅NH- group of N-methyl-N′-phenylurea exchanges 50 times faster than the CH₃NH- group in base and about 3 orders of magnitude slower in acid. The results are rationalized by consideration of steric and electronic effects.     

Tetrazoloazines. 15N nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared absorption spectroscopy

The reaction of 4-chloro-2-phenylquinazoline with K¹⁵NN₂ has been studied by ¹⁵N-NMR. spectroscopy. ¹⁵N-chemical shifts in 5-phenyl-1 (3)-[¹⁵N]-tetrazolo[1,5-c]quinazoline and -Nα(Nγ)-[¹⁵N]-4-azido-2-phenylquinazoline are reported. The characteristic IR. absorption frequencies of the tetrazole group have been determined in a series of annelated ¹⁵N-labelled compounds. From these studies and the chemistry of the labelled tetrazoles, it is concluded that all haloazines examined react with KN₃ by the direct nucleophilic substitution mechanism. An addition of nucleophile-ring opening-ring closure (ANRORC) mechanism was not observed. The synthesis of several ¹⁵N-labelled tetrazoloazines is described.     

15N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Natural-abundance 15N spectra of aliphatic oximes

¹⁵N chemical shifts of the Z and E isomers of twenty-two ketoximes and fourteen aldoximes have been determined at the natural-abundance level of ¹⁵N, using Fourier transform methods. The influences of π delocalization, methyl substituents and solute concentration on the oxime nitrogen shielding have been determined. The ¹⁵N shifts for oximes of several cycloalkanones have been measured and the influence of ring size on the chemical shifts is discussed.     

15N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Natural abundance 15N NMR of monosubstituted indoles

¹⁵N chemical shifts of twenty-four substituted indoles have been determined in natural abundance (in organic solvents) using Fourier transform NMR. The overall chemical shift range is 27 ppm, with groups in the 2-, 3- and 5-ring positions showing the largest substituent effects. Substituents capable of resonance interaction with the indole nitrogen give shifts in the expected directions but they cannot be correlated with known substituent parameters. Compounds measured in DMSO give 0·2 to 10·2 ppm downfield shifts with respect to the same compound measured in CDCl₃. ¹³C NMR data for previously unreported compounds are also reported.     

Shiftless nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

The acquisition and analysis of high resolution one- and two-dimensional solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra without chemical shift frequencies are described. Many variations of shiftless NMR spectroscopy are feasible. A two-dimensional experiment that correlates the dipole-dipole and dipole-dipole couplings in the model peptide , (15)N labeled N-acetyl-leucine is demonstrated. In addition to the resolution of resonances from individual sites in a single crystal sample, the bond lengths and angles are characterized by the two-dimensional powder pattern obtained from a polycrystalline sample.     

Covariance nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Covariance nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is introduced, which is a new scheme for establishing nuclear spin correlations from NMR experiments. In this method correlated spin dynamics is directly displayed in terms of a covariance matrix of a series of one-dimensional (1D) spectra. In contrast to two-dimensional (2D) Fourier transform NMR, in a covariance spectrum the spectral resolution along the indirect dimension is determined by the favorable spectral resolution obtainable along the detection dimension, thereby reducing the time-consuming sampling requirement along the indirect dimension. The covariance method neither involves a second Fourier transformation nor does it require separate phase correction or apodization along the indirect dimension. The new scheme is demonstrated for cross-relaxation (NOESY) and J-coupling based magnetization transfer (TOCSY) experiments.     

Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Differential rates of N?H proton-exchange reactions of hydrazine-carbothioamide and 4-methylhydrazine-carbothioamide in dimethyl sulfoxide

The proton-coupled nitrogen-15 NMR spectra of hydrazinecarbothioamide and 4-methylhydrazinecarbothioamide have been taken at the natural-abundance level in neutral, basic and acidic solutions at 25°C. The N? H proton-exchange reactions of the hydrazino-NH₂ groups in both compounds were found to be very rapid in the presence of acid, but quite slow in the presence of base. The hydrazino-NH protons of hydrazinecarbothioamide exhange six times and 200 times faster than the amide protons in the presence of either base or acid, respectively. Similarly, acid- and base-catalyzed N? H proton exchanges of the hydrazino-NH group of 4-methylhydrazinecarbothioamide were found to be two to three orders of magnitude faster than those of N-methylamido protons. These results can be rationalized by consideration of the effect of the lone pair on the hydrazino? NH₂ group on the reactivity of the adjacent ? NH? group.     

Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic study of compounds with nitrogen?nitrogen bonds

The ¹⁵N NMR spectra of several substances with nitrogen—nitrogen bonds have been obtained at the natural-abundance level by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. Azo (? N?N? ) nitrogens are 300–500 ppm deshielded compared with hydrazo (? NH? NH? ) nitrogens. The sensitivity of the ¹⁵N shifts in these types of substances to substituent changes are reported, along with ¹⁵N–¹H spin–spin couplings for some hydrazo compounds. Hydrogen-bonding effects arising from solvent changes on the ¹⁵N shifts of azoxybenzene are different for its two kinds of nitrogen. The ¹⁵N NMR spectrum of N,N'-dinitrosopiperazine in dimethyl sulfoxide at room temperature is consistent with the presence of two different conformations about the N? NO bonds.