Carbon-Proton Heteronuclear Coupling

Considerable structural information can be obtained by examination of one-, two-, and three-bond coupling constants. To a close approximation, the 

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Fluorine-19 NMR data were acquired at a frequency of 188.22 MHz with a Varian XL-200 spectrometer. Typically, 100 transients were accumulated from a 5% polymer solution by volume in dimethylformamide-d7 placed in a 5 mm sample tube at 120 C with internal hexafluorobenzene as a reference ( = 163 ppm). A sweep width of 8000 Hz was used with 8 K computer locations (acquisition time 0.5s) and a 5.0 s delay between 90 pulses (9.0 s duration). Proton heteronuclear coupling was removed by broad-band irradiation centered at 200 MHz. A modified Bruker WH-90 spectrometer allowed carbon-13 NMR spectra to be obtained with simultaneous proton and fluorine-19 broadband decoupling (13). 

This section pertains to reports on oriented molecules in which phases other than the usual thermotropic nematics have been used. Studies in chiral, smectic, columnar, lyotropic and polymeric liquid crystals as well as other unusual phases have been presented. The use of carbon-proton heteronuclear selective refocusing 2D NMR experiment designed for the spectral analysis of enantiomers dissolved in weakly ordering chiral liquid crystal solvents has been proposed." The method permits the extraction of carbon-proton residual dipolar couplings for each enantiomer from a complex or unresolved proton-coupled... 

HMQC Heteronuclear multiple quantum coherence, e.g. inverse CH correlation via one-bond carbon proton-coupling, same format and information as described for ( C detected) CH COSY but much more sensitive (therefore less time-consuming) because of H detection... 

The most downfield cross-peaks, V-Y, are due to heteronuclear couplings of the aromadc or vinylic protons and carbons. For instance, cross-peak Y represents heteronuclear interaction between the C-1 vinylic proton (8 5.56) and a carbon resonating at 8 134.0 (C-1). The downfield cross-peaks, V and W, are due to the heteronuclear correlations of the ortho and meta protons (8 7.34 and 7.71) in the aromatic moiety with the carbons resonating at 8 128.3 and 126.9, respectively. The remaining cross-peak X is due to the one-bond correlation of the C-4 aromatic proton (8 7.42) with the C-4 carbon appearing at 8 131.4. The cross-peak U displays direct H/ C connectivity between the carbon at 8 77.9 (C-6) and C-6 methine proton (8 4.70). The crosspeak T is due to the one-bond heteronuclear correlation of carbon... 

As we have already pointed out in the section dealing with heteronuclear coupling that it is not always necessary to confirm the presence of a particular hetero atom by acquiring the NMR spectrum of that nucleus. More often than not, the hetero atom will have a clear signature in the proton or carbon spectrum. Fluorine and phosphorus are both examples of nuclei that couple to protons over two, three, four and even more bonds. 

Fig. 10.22. Diagram showing the cross-polarization from protons, H, to a heteronucleus, X, such as carbons. Heteronuclear dipolar coupling enables the transfer of magnetization from H to X, such as protons to carbons. Homonuclear dipolar coupling between the abundant protons enables the redistribution of proton spin energy through spin diffusion.

The HSC spectrum is the heteronuclear analogue of the COSY spectrum and identifies which protons are coupled to which carbons in the molecule. The HSC spectrum has the NMR spectrum of the substance on one axis (F2) and the i C spectrum (or the spectrum of some other nucleus) on the second axis (Fi). A schematic representation of an HSC spectrum is given below. It is usual to plot a normal (one-dimensional) H NMR spectmm along the proton dimension and a normal (one-dimensional) C NMR spectmm along the C dimension to give reference spectra for the peaks that appear in the two-dimensional spectmm. 

If the spin systems of the individual amino acids are identified, the connectivity in the sequence can be established via NOE or ROE across the amide bonds or via heteronuclear coupling of the carbonyl carbon to the NH and a-protons in the adjacent amino acids (Scheme 1). The NOEs from the NH to the Ca or O protons of the sequentially preceding residue are normally large and cross peaks connecting the spin systems of the amino adds are easy to observe (Figure 5). 

Heteronuclear dipolar coupling can be a major broadening mechanism, especially as in a number of materials protons are present which often have dipolar couplings to other nuclei in excess of 50 kHz. This means that MAS is usually not sufficient to remove the effect of the dipolar coupling in the spectra. C NMR spectra are, for instance, often obscured by dipolar coupling to the protons. In order to remove the carbon-proton coupling the protons are irradiated with an rf field while, at the same time, the carbon spectrum is measured. Consider the CH system where the heteronuclear dipolar... 

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