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.