13C n.m.r. chemical shifts of carbodiimides

The ¹³C n.m.r. chemical shifts of the sp-hybridized carbons in dialkylcarbodiimides have values of δc ? 140. These shifts are compared with those of similarly hybridized carbons occuring in other classes of compounds.     

Temperature effects on 13C n.m.r. chemical shifts of normal alkanes and some line r and branched 1-alkenes

¹³C n.m.r. chemical shifts of a number of 1,1-disubstituted ethylenes are presented. Moreover, effects of changing temperatures on the ¹³C n.m.r. chemical shifts of some of these compounds as well as of three normal alkanes are given. These variations in chemical shifts are attributed to varying amounts of sterically induced shifts in the different conformational equilibria. In addition to the well-known 1,4 interaction between two alkyl groups shielding effects on the carbon atoms of the connecting bonds are also proposed. No definite explanation of this effect is presented at this time. It is further shown that no simple correlations exist between ¹³C n.m.r. chemical shifts and calculated total charge densities at this level. Instead, the experimental results in 1-alkenes are rationalized by assuming a linear dependence of the ¹³C n.m.r. chemical shifts of C-1 and C-2 via rehybridizations on changes in bond angles for small skeletal deformations caused by steric interactions. These changes in geometries, as well as conformational energies in three 1-alkenes, were calculated by means of VFF calculations. Finally. upfield shifts for both C-2 and C-4 are proposed for those conformations of 1-alkenes in which the C-3? C-4 group interacts with the p_z-orbital of C-2.     

31P chemical shifts in N-aryliminotriphenylphosphoranes

³¹P chemical shifts in N-aryliminotriphenylphosphoranes and the corresponding N-methylated phosphonium salts are presented. They can be correlated with those theories of the bonding in phosphorus-nitrogen ylides which involve partial double bonding as a result of p^π–d^π overlap.     

31P relaxation in some organophosphorus compounds

The ³¹p spin lattice relaxation times and nuclear overhauser enhancement factors of some organophosphorus compounds have been measured and analysed in terms of different relaxation mechanisms.     

Dual substituent parameter analysis of the ethyl and ipso 13C n.m.r. chemical shifts of some ring-substituted ethylbenzenes and ethylnaphthalenes

The natural abundance ¹³C n.m.r. spectra of a series of para-substituted ethylbenzenes, 4-substituted-1-ethylnaphthalenes and a limited series of 6-substituted-2-ethylnaphthalenes have been examined at low dilution in deuterochloroform solvent. The ethyl carbons and C_ipso in the phenyl series (i.e. have been assigned, and substituent chemical shifts for these carbons calculated and analysed by the Dual Substituent Parameter treatment. (Chemical shifts of all ring carbons have been obtained, but not assigned). Generally speaking, electron-withdrawing substituents lead to positive (i.e. downfield) substituent chemical shifts for CH ₂ and negative substituent chemical shifts for C H₃, i.e. ‘normal’ and ‘inverse’ behaviour respectively. C_ipso in the phenyl series exhibits a ‘normal’ dependence. The dependences of the various substituent chemical shifts on inductive and resonance parameters are discussed, and compared with the behaviour of side chain carbons in other substituted benzene systems.     

Temperature dependence of the chemical shifts of commonly employed proton n.m.r. reference compounds

The temperature dependence of the chemical shifts of ten commonly employed ¹H n.m.r. reference compounds of interest to both organic and biological workers was determined using the temperature independent standard ethane at low density. The water soluble standards sodium 2,2-dimethyl-2-silapentane-5-sulfonate and sodium 3-trimethylsilylpropionate-d₆ exhibited very small chemical shift changes over the range of 20–65 °C. Outside of this temperature interval the chemical shift is distinctly nonlinear, but still is sufficiently small to be neglected for many n.m.r. studies. In contrast, the temperature dependence of seven neat organic liquid reference standards was observed to be linear over a significant temperature range with slopes varying between 0.0009 and 0.0023 ppm °C^?1. Only tetramethylammonium chloride (in ²H₂O) exhibited a small but pronounced nonlinear temperature dependence over the full range investigated.     

15N n.m.r.: Substituent effects on nitrogen chemical shifts in anilinium ions

¹⁵N chemical shifts were measured in a series of anilinium fluorosulfonate salts and compared with chemical shift data from a comparable series of ¹⁵N-enriched aniline derivatives. A smaller overall range of nitrogen chemical shifts was observed for the protonated aniline series compared with that for the unprotonated anilines and is attributed to the elimination of nitrogen lone pair delocalization in the former series. Further-more, it was found that the range of nitrogen chemical shifts in the protonated anilines is determined primarily by substituent electronic effects from the ortho ring position with almost negligible contributions from the para position.     

13C n.m.r. spectra of some polychloroalkenes

¹³C n.m.r. spectra have been measured for thirty-two polychloroalkenes including (i) monosubstituted compounds CH₂?CHCCl_nH_2?nX, where ? X stands for ? H, ? Cl, alkyl, and trisubstituted alkenes CCl₂?CHAlk, none of which form geometric isomers; (ii) disubstituted compounds RCH?CHR′; (iii) and (iv) trisubstituted compounds of the types RCCl?CHR′ and CHCl?CClR, respectively. Compounds (ii) to (iv) represent either individual isomers or mixtures of the Z and E forms. In the case of compounds (ii) and (iii), the ordering of chemical shifts is δ_E > δ_Z for the sp²-carbon atoms and δ_E < δ_z for the adjacent tetrahedral ones. On the contrary, the signals of the sp²-carbon atoms of compounds (iv) obey the rule δ_E < δ_z. The effect of vinyl and allyl groups as substituents on the ¹³C chemical shifts of chlorine-containing groups is discussed. The dependence of the sp²-carbon spin–spin coupling constants J(¹³C? ¹H) on the number of chlorinated substituents in the molecule is also considered.     

Determination of 3J(31P31P) and 13C31P coupling constants in 1,6-diphosphatriptycene from carbon-13 n.m.r. lone pairs effects on 13C31P couplings

The ³¹P? ³¹P and ¹³C? ³¹P coupling constants in 1,6-diphosphatriptycene have been obtained from analysis of its proton decoupled ¹³C n.m.r. spectra. More accurate data, however, resulted from simultaneous analysis of the proton decoupled ¹³C spectra and ³¹P(¹³C) satellite spectra. The ¹³C? ³¹P couplings are strongly influenced by the proximity and orientation of the phosphorus lone pair electrons. The first ³¹P? ³¹P coupling in an aromatic diphosphine is reported.     

The origin of aromatic solvent-induced shifts in 19F n.m.r.

Aromatic solvent-induced shifts (ASIS) in ¹⁹F n.m.r. spectra of several organic fluoro compounds have been determined in several solvents. ¹⁹F n.m.r. signals of unsaturated fluoro compounds in C₆F₆ and C₆H₆ show excess high field shifts corresponding to the term σ_c (solvent shift caused by chemical interactions). The mechanism of this shift is discussed in connection with the presence of an F-π interaction. A thermal study also supports this idea.     

Carbon-13 n.m.r. spectroscopy of some Strychnos alkaloids

¹³C N.m.r. spectra have been determined for strychnine and a series of fourteen derivatives. The assignments are based on previously established data and on off-resonance decoupled spectra. The shifts resulting from the alterations in molecular structure are discussed and explained, in part, as a consequence of conformational changes. This detailed study indicates that changes are required in some previously published assignments.     

13C n.m.r. studies of some phenanthrene and fluorene derivatives

The ¹H and ¹³C spectra of fluorene, fluorenone, phenanthrene and their 4-methyl and 4,5-dimethyl derivatives have been examined. To complete the analyses for fluorenone and 4-methylfluorenone, ¹H spectra were recorded at 270 MHz. The results from the ¹H spectra permitted unequivocal assignments for the protonated aryl carbons by selective proton decoupling. A consistent set of assignments for the quaternary carbons was obtained through consideration of the dominant relaxation processes operative at these centres. This series of compounds was examined to investigate the shielding effects produced by the close approach of methyl groups separated by five bonds for comparison with the contrasting trends found for methyl carbons separated by three and four bonds. The results indicate that the relative orientation of the methyl groups is an extremely critical factor governing their shieldings and those of neighboring centres.     

31P NMR chemical shifts in hypervalent oxyphosphoranes and polymeric orthophosphates

We report the first quantum chemical investigation of the solid- and solution-state 31P NMR chemical shifts in models for phosphoryl transfer enzyme reaction intermediates and in polymeric inorganic phosphates. The 31P NMR chemical shifts of five- and six-coordinate oxyphosphoranes containing a variety of substitutions at phosphorus, as well as four-coordinate polymeric orthophosphates and four-coordinate phosphonates, are predicted with a slope of 1.00 and an R2= 0.993 (N = 34), corresponding to a 3.8 ppm (or 2.1%) error over the entire 178.3 ppm experimental chemical shift range, using Hartree-Fock methods. For the oxyphosphoranes, we used either experimental crystallographic structures or, when these were not available, fully geometry optimized molecular structures. For the four-coordinate phosphonates we used X-ray structures together with charge field perturbation, to represent lattice interactions. For the three-dimensional orthophosphates (BPO4, AlPO4, GaPO4 we again used X-ray structures, but for these inorganic systems we employed a self-consistent charge field perturbation approach on large clusters, to deduce peripheral atom charges. For pentaoxyphosphoranes, the solvent effect on 31P NMR chemical shieldings was found to be very small (<0.5 ppm). The 31P NMR chemical shielding tensors in the pentaoxyphosphoranes were in most cases found to be close to axially symmetric and were dominated by changes in the shielding tensor components in the equatorial plane (sigma22 and sigma33). The isotropic shifts were highly correlated (R2= 0.923) with phosphorus natural bonding orbital charges, with the larger charges being associated with shorter axial P-O bond lengths and, hence, more shielding. Overall, these results should facilitate the use of 31P NMR techniques in investigating the structures of more complex systems, such as phosphoryl transfer enzymes, as well as in investigating other, complex oxide structures.     

13C n.m.r. spectra of some thiobenzamides. Correlation between 13C and 1H n.m.r. spectra and signal assignments of syn and anti CH2 groups

¹³C n.m.r. spectra of a series of N,N-disubstituted thioamides have been recorded and signal assignments were performed. Separate signals are observed for methylene groups fixed on the nitrogen atom. Since the carbon atom syn to the thiocarbonyl sulfur resonates at higher field than the anti carbon, the syn-anti assignment in ¹H n.m.r. is easily obtained by selective double irradiation. This method, which is rapid and reliable, affords a rather general solution to the interesting problem of resonance assignments in tertiary amides and thioamides (and in analogous molecules such as oximes and nitrosamines).     

Prediction of 31P nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shifts for phosphines

Quantitative relationships of the (31)P NMR chemical shifts of the phosphorus atoms in 291 phosphines with the atomic ionicity index (INI) and stereoscopic effect parameters (epsilon(alpha), epsilon(beta), epsilon(gamma)) were primarily investigated in this paper for modeling some fundamental quantitative structure-spectroscopy relationships (QSSR). The results indicated that the (31)P NMR chemical shifts of phosphines can be described as the quantitative equation by multiple linear regression (MLR): delta(p)(ppm)= -174.0197-2.6724INI+40.4755epsilon(alpha)+15.1141epsilon(beta)-3.1858epsilon(gamma), correlation coefficient R=0.9479, root mean square error (rms)=13.9, and cross-validated predictive correlation coefficient was found by using the leave-one-out procedure to be Q(2)=0.8919. Furthermore, through way of random sampling, the estimative stability and the predictive power of the proposed MLR model were examined by constructing data set randomly into both the internal training set and external test set of 261 and 30 compounds, respectively, and then the chemical shifts were estimated and predicted with the training correlation coefficient R=0.9467 and rms=13.4 and the external predicting correlation coefficient Q(ext)=0.9598 and rms=10.8. A partial least square model was developed that produced R=0.9466, Q=0.9407 and Q(ext)=0.9599, respectively. Those good results provided a new, simple, accurate and efficient methodology for calculating (31)P NMR chemical shifts of phosphines.     

13C n.m.r. spectra of some pyrylium salts and related compounds

The ¹³C chemical shifts of several alkyl and phenyl substituted pyrylium perchlorates, together with related pyridine and pyridinium salts, are reported. The shifts in the isoelectronic series benzene, pyridine, pyrylium cation correlate well with charge densities calculated by INDO MO theory. Charge densities also account for the shift changes found at C-3, C-4 and C-5 for protonation of pyridine and 2,4,6-trimethylpyridine. The shift changes observed on protonation for C-2 and C-6, along the series pyridine, 2,4,6-trimethylpyridine and 2,4,6-triphenylpyridine can only be rationalized by consideration of both charge density and π-bond order changes. The effects of alkyl substitution on the shifts of the pyrylium cations are not accounted for by charge density changes. Empirical correlations of these shifts with literature data for the alkylbenzenes and the shifts of the phenyl substituted 6-membered heterocycles are discussed.     

A 13C n.m.r. study of the charge-transfer complexes between o-chloranil and some aromatic electron donors

The ¹³C n.m.r. spectra of complexes between o-chloranil and aromatic electron donors were studied. Complexation leads to a general diamagnetic shift of the ¹³C n.m.r. signals for the acceptor (o-chloranil), but for signals from the ¹³C nuclei in the donors both diamagnetic and paramagnetic shifts are found. These phenomena are thought to be the result of competing anisotropy and charge-migration effects. Charge migration in o-chloranil complexes appears to be more important than in corresponding 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene complexes.     

Carbon-13 n.m.r. studies of some saturated 1,2-oxazepine derivatives

The influence of incorporating an group, an oxygen atom and the fragment in a saturated 7-membered ring system on carbon-13 n.m.r. chemical shifts is examined, and also, the influence of the dioxolane ring moiety on the ¹³C chemical shifts in these ring systems. Substituent effects are generally additive except in cases where the ring is heavily substituted with methyl groups. A large upfield steric shift (γ effect) of 7–8 ppm is observed in two of the derivatives. An example of long range nonequivalence is also observed. Assignments of the ¹³C n.m.r. spectra have been made by comparison with model compounds, and from proton coupled ¹³C n.m.r. spectra. The synthesis of several new compounds is described.