13C NMR spectra of arylnaphthalene lignans

The¹³C NMR spectra have been investigated of a number of arylnaphthalene lignans of plant origin: daurinol and its acetyl derivative and reduction product, justicidin A, justicidin B and its reduction product and the diacetyl derivative of the reduction product, and diphyllin and its acetate. The values of the chemical shifts of the carbon atoms in the spectra of the compounds investigated and the nature of their change according to structural factors are discussed and an assignment is made of the resonance lines in the spectra. The characteristics of the spectrum of one compound are used as models for others. The parameters of the¹³C NMR spectra of a number of naphthalene derivatives are also used. On the basis of the results of the assignment of the signals, difference values of the chemical shifts of the carbon atoms in the series of compounds investigated have been determined. Using the experimental results as a background, some examples taken from the literature of investigations of the¹³C NMR spectra of related compounds have been analyzed.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 76–90, January–February, 1987.