Acidity correlation nitrogen charge

By introducing reasonable values (about 2 for nitrogen, 4 for oxygen) for the electron affinity parameter relative to carbon, 8, and for the induced electron affinity for adjacent atoms (32/8i = Vio), we have shown that the calculated permanent charge distributions for pyridine, toluene, phenyltrimethylammonium ion, nitrobenzene, benzoic acid, benzaldehyde, acetophenone, benzo-nitrile, furan, thiophene, pyrrole, aniline, and phenol can be satisfactorily correlated qualitatively with the observed positions and rates of substitution. For naphthalene and the halogen benzenes this calculation does not lead to results... 

Structure elucidation of three related derivatives of ring system 2 ( temozolomide 9a, mitozolomide 9b, and the related acid derivative 9c) has been carried out by 13C and 15N NMR spectroscopy <1995J(P1)249> (Scheme 2). The 1SN NMR chemical shifts measured in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solutions are listed in Table 1. For compound 9a, Lowdin charges of the nitrogen atoms have also been calculated and found to have a linear relationship with the experimentally determined chemical shifts of these atoms. The NMR data of 9a have been correlated with those of a series of heterocycles of related structure by the same team <2002MRC300>. 

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