Proton-base bonds

Besides the large discrepancy in/B//BH+ ratios between the nonhydrogen-bonded protonated bases and the hydrogen-bonded protonated bases, there are discrepancies in /bZ/bh" between even the protonated anilines (Taft, 1960 deLigny, 1961). Such discrepancies are to be expected and do not diminish the contribution of Hammett in showing that there is enough equivalence infB/fsH to establish useful acidity functions. 

The simplest explanation for the hydrogen bond is based upon the polar nature of F—H, O—H, and N—H bonds. In a molecule such as H20, the electron pair in the O—H bond is displaced toward the oxygen nucleus and away from the hydrogen nucleus. This partial ionic character of the O—H bond lends to the hydrogen atom some positive character, permitting electrons from another atom to approach closely to the proton even though the proton is already bonded. A second, weaker link is formed. 

The optically active Schiff bases containing intramolecular hydrogen bonds are of major interest because of their use as ligands for complexes employed as catalysts in enantioselective reactions or model compounds in studies of enzymatic reactions. In the studies of intramolecularly hydrogen bonded Schiff bases, the NMR spectroscopy is widely used and allows detection of the presence of proton transfer equilibrium and determination of the mole fraction of tautomers [21]. Literature gives a few names of tautomers in equilibrium. The OH-tautomer has been also known as OH-, enol- or imine-form, while NH tautomer as NH-, keto-, enamine-, or proton-transferred form. More detail information concerning the application of NMR spectroscopy for investigation of proton transfer equilibrium in Schiff bases is presented in reviews.42-44... 

Over the past 20 years, with the availability of fast reaction techniques (Eigen and de Maeyer, 1963 Hammes, 1974 Bemasconi, 1976), numerous kinetic studies have been made of the reactivity of hydrogen-bonded protons towards an external base (52). The majority of such studies have been made with hydroxide ion as the external base. Some examples of proton transfer to... 

The conclusions reached about proton transfer from phenylazoresorcinol monoanions are quite different from the behaviour which has been described for other hydrogen-bonded acids. For phenylazoresorcinol monoanions, it appears that direct attack by base on the hydrogen-bonded proton is an important process and can compete with two-step proton removal. For two-step proton transfer through an open form of the phenylazoresorcinol monoanion it is found that the rate of proton transfer from the open form is... 

Eyring (Haslam et ai, 1965a Eyring and Haslam, 1966 Jensen et ai, 1966) preferred to explain the reduced rate in terms of a one-step mechanism in which the base directly attacked the hydrogen-bonded proton as in (24). 

Conformational analysis of oligosaccharides in solution by NMR spectroscopy is based on the study of chemical shifts, n.O.e. s, and three-bond, proton-carbon coupling constants. Generally, the experimental NMR parameters P. . , (such as n.O.e. s or... 

Until now, the determination of three-dimensional structures of oligosaccharides in solution was based primarily on proton-proton distance information obtained from n.O.e. data. Here, we discuss the application of three-bond proton-carbon coupling constants. 

For a spin-1/2 nucleus, such as carbon-13, the relaxation is often dominated by the dipole-dipole interaction with directly bonded proton(s). As mentioned in the theory section, the longitudinal relaxation in such a system deviates in general from the simple description based on Bloch equations. The complication - the transfer of magnetization from one spin to another - is usually referred to as cross-relaxation. The cross-relaxation process is conveniently described within the framework of the extended Solomon equations. If cross-correlation effects can be neglected or suitably eliminated, the longitudinal dipole-dipole relaxation of two coupled spins, such... 

Thus, Professor Sokolov s mathematical treatment of the hydrogen bond is based already on the assumption that in a system A—H O— the A—H bond is mainly ionic A H+, although it is known that this is far from true. Ab a result of this assumption, the repulsions between the electrons of the A-—H bond and the non-bonding electrons of O are ignored. This treatment km little relationship to the problem of the hydrogen bond, but rather corresponds to the interaction of a proton with the acceptor system O—, which already m absence of any cal dilations, could be predicted to result in the formation of a covalent bond H—0+—. 

The 15N magnetic resonance studies of the pyrimidine bases or their derivatives are scarce. Roberts et al.BB have measured the 1H and 15N magnetic resonance spectra of a number of pyrimidines including uracil and 1-methylcytosine. The most important result of this study was the elucidation of the dominant tautomeric structures of uracil and proto-nated 1-methylcytosine as the diketo, 32, and keto-amine form, 7, respectively (cf. Sections II and IV and the spectrum of 1-methylcytosine hydrochloride labeled only in the amino group62). In the case of uracil,85 the two 15N-bonded protons gave two doublets centered at 10.78 and 10.96 ppm (measured downfield from internal tetramethyl-... 

N.B. There are also a bond-pair bases which react with protons to form species containing three-centre bonds, e.g. CH4 + H+ - CHs+ however, by their very nature these compounds do not belong in this chapter on double-bonded groups.)... 

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