Substituent effects on scalar J(13C, 13C) couplings in pyrimidines. An experimental and DFT study

One- two- and three 13C, 13C (n = 1, 2, 3) scalar couplings, (n)J(C,C) in a set of pyrimidine derivatives were studied both experimentally at natural abundance and theoretically by their DFT calculation of all four contributions. Trends of non-contact terms are discussed and substituent effects are rationalized, comparing some of them with the corresponding values in benzene and pyridine. Although substituent effects on non-contact terms are relatively important, the whole trend is dominated by the Fermi contact term. According to the current literature, substituent effects on 1J(C,C) couplings in benzene derivatives are dominated by the inductive effect, which, apparently, is also the case in nitrogen heteroaromatic compounds. However, some differences observed in this work for substituent effects on 1J(C,C) couplings in pyrimidine derivatives suggest that in the latter type of compounds substituent effects can be affected by the orientation of the ring nitrogen lone pairs.     

Calculation of nuclear spin-spin coupling constants by SCF perturbation theory with MINDO/3 approximation

LCAO-MO-SCF-MINDO/3 approximation is used to calculate nuclear spin-spin couplings, ⁿ J ^AB, between magnetic nuclei A and B (A, B ¹H,¹³C,¹⁹F) separated byn bonds in a number of molecules. The theory predicts reasonably good values for directly bonded couplings (except those involving fluorine), but the results for multi-bond couplings are not so encouraging. Reasons for this deficiency of the theory are examined in the text.Based on Ph.D. Thesis of P. K. K. Pandey, Banaras Hindu University, 1977.     

Halogen - metal exchange of 3-substituted 1,2-dibromoarenes: the use of long-range JCH coupling constants to determine regiochemistry

Regioselective halogen/metal exchange reactions were carried out on a series of 3-substituted- 1,2-dibromoarenes. Product mixtures were quenched with CO2 to form the corresponding benzoic acid analogs to facilitate HPLC and NMR analysis. Substitution at the 3-position could readily be assigned on the basis of 2D HMBC long-range correlations, while assignment at the 2-position was not as straightforward. The use of three-bond J(CH) coupling constant measurements, extracted from 1-D 1H coupled 13C experiments, were necessary to render unequivocal regio assignments.     

Computation and analysis of 19F substituent chemical shifts of some bridgehead‐substituted polycyclic alkyl fluorides

The ¹⁹F NMR shieldings for several remotely substituted rigid polycyclic alkyl fluorides with common sets of substituents covering a wide range of electronic effects were calculated using the DFT‐GIAO theoretical model. The level of theory, B3LYP/6–311+G(2d,p), was chosen based on trial calculations which gave good agreement with experimental values where known. The optimized geometries were used to obtain various molecular parameters (fluorine natural charges, electron occupancies on fluorine of lone pairs and of the C? F bond, and hybridization states) by means of natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis which could help in understanding electronic transmission mechanisms underlying ¹⁹F substituent chemical shifts (SCS) in these systems. Linear regression analysis was employed to explore the relationship between the calculated ¹⁹F SCS and polar substituent constants and also the NBO derived molecular parameters. The ¹⁹F SCS are best described by an electronegativity parameter. The most pertinent molecular parameters appear to be the occupation number of the NBO p‐type fluorine lone pair and the occupation number of the C? F antibonding orbital. This trend suggests that in these types of rigid saturated systems hyperconjugative interactions play a key role in determining the ¹⁹F SCS. Electrostatic field effects appear to be relatively unimportant. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Dipolar and Scalar Couplings in Solid State NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei

Summary.  Most NMR-active nuclei found in the periodic table have a quadrupole moment. In combination with a nonsymmetric electron distribution a strong NMR-active interaction results, which very often overshadows the dipolar and scalar couplings. This article aims at reviewing how these interactions manifest themselves in quadrupolar NMR and how they can be exploited for resonance assignment and structure elucidation, in spite of the presence of a strong quadrupolar interaction. E-mail: alexej.jerschow@nyu.edu Received April 16, 2002; accepted May 15, 2002     

An easy access to unsymmetric trisubstituted methane derivatives (TRSMs)

A new series of unsymmetric trisubstituted methane derivatives (TRSMs) has been synthesized through Friedel-Crafts alkylation of aromatic nucleophiles using acid-sensitive heteroaryl carbinols.     

Correlation between structure and stability of nitronic acids and nitronic esters

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Determination of the geometry of acetoxyendiynes and acetoxyenynes by NMR heteronuclear 13C?1H scalar couplings and 13C NMR chemical shifts. Structural assignment of the oxylipin natural products peyssonenynes A and B

Solution NMR methods were used for the structural characterization of the acetoxyendiyne E/Z configuration of the marine natural products peyssonenynes A and B and their synthetic analogs derived from palmitic acid. The scarcity of protons in the proximity of the olefin precluded the determination of the double bond geometry using ¹H NMR methods that rely on proton–proton scalar couplings or experiments such as NOESY or ROESY. Long range ¹H? ¹³C heteronuclear scalar couplings, ⁿJ_CH, measured with the 2D excitation sculptured indirect detection experiment (EXSIDE) proved useful and highly reliable for the analysis of the enol acetate geometry. In addition, it was found that the chemical shift of some carbon atoms in the proximity of the olefin was also sensitive to the double bond configuration of these molecules providing an even simpler way to determine their geometry. This protocol showed its robustness by similar analysis of simpler silyl‐protected acetoxyenynes derived from fatty acids. These NMR experimental results and stereochemical predictions were rationalized by DFT calculations. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

BH_3及其等电子分子片的杂化轨道和轨道相互作用

本文在文[1—3]和MNDO分子轨道计算的基础上,分析一些等电子分子片X(BH_(?)、BF_3、CH_3~+、CF_3~+)的前线杂化轨道,讨论它们同配体L(H~-、CO、CN~-、NC~-、NH_3)的轨道相互作用,从而研究X+L→XL反应的进程和产物XL分子稳定结构。