Chemical shift bonds

P-31 Chemical Shift-Bond Angle Correlations in Binuclear Iron Carbonyls... 

D. B. Chesnut, Chem, Phys, 110, 415 (1986). NMR Chemical Shift Bond Length Derivatives of the First- and Second-Row Hydrides. 

D. B. Chesnut and D. W. Wright, J. Comput. Chem., 12, 546 (1991). Chemical Shift Bond Derivatives for Molecules Containing First-Row Atoms. 

Tjandra N and Bax A 1997 Solution NMR measurement of amide proton chemical shift anisotropy in N-15-enriched proteins. Correlation with hydrogen bond length J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119 8076-82... 

Figure B2.4.1 illustrates this type of behaviour. If there is no rotation about the bond joining the N, N -dimethyl group to the ring, the proton NMR signals of the two methyl groups will have different chemical shifts. If the rotation were very fast, then the two methyl enviromnents would be exchanged very quickly and only a single, average, methyl peak would appear in the proton NMR spectrum. Between these two extremes, spectra like those in figure B2.4.1 are observed. At low temperature, when the rate is slow, two...

Figure B2.4.5. Simulated lineshapes for an intennolecular exchange reaction in which the bond joining two strongly coupled nuclei breaks and re-fomis at a series of rates, given beside tlie lineshape. In slow exchange, the typical spectrum of an AB spin system is shown. In the limit of fast exchange, the spectrum consists of two lines at tlie two chemical shifts and all the coupling has disappeared.

NMR spectra are basically characterized by the chemical shift and coupling constants of signals. The chemical shift for a particular atom is influenced by the 3D arrangement and bond types of the chemical environment of the atom and by its hybridization. The multiplicity of a signal depends on the coupling partners and on the bond types between atom and couphng partner. 

However, one of the most successfiil approaches to systematically encoding substructures for NMR spectrum prediction was introduced quite some time ago by Bremser [9]. He used the so-called HOSE (Hierarchical Organization of Spherical Environments) code to describe structures. As mentioned above, the chemical shift value of a carbon atom is basically influenced by the chemical environment of the atom. The HOSE code describes the environment of an atom in several virtual spheres - see Figure 10.2-1. It uses spherical layers (or levels) around the atom to define the chemical environment. The first layer is defined by all the atoms that are one bond away from the central atom, the second layer includes the atoms within the two-bond distance, and so on. This idea can be described as an atom center fragment (ACF) concept, which has been addressed by several other authors in different approaches [19-21]. 

The similarity of the retrieved protons to those of the query structure, and the distribution of chemical shifts among protons with the same HOSE codes, can be used as measures of prediction reliability. When common substructures cannot be found for a given proton (within a predefined number of bond spheres) interpolations are applied to obtain a prediction proprietary methods are often used in commercial programs. 

The decreased shielding caused by electronegative substituents is primarily an inductive effect and like other inductive effects falls off rapidly as the number of bonds between the substituent and the proton increases Compare the chemical shifts of the pro tons m propane and 1 mtropropane... 

Table 13 1 collects chemical shift information for protons of various types The beginning and major portion of the table concerns protons bonded to carbon Within each type methyl (CH3) protons are more shielded than methylene (CH2) protons and meth ylene protons are more shielded than methme (CH) protons These differences are small as the following two examples illustrate... 

Acetylenic hydrogens are unusual in that they are more shielded than we would expect for protons bonded to sp hybridized carbon This is because the rr electrons circulate around the triple bond not along it (Figure 13 9a) Therefore the induced magnetic field is parallel to the long axis of the triple bond and shields the acetylenic proton (Figure 13 9b) Acetylenic protons typically have chemical shifts near 8 2 5... 

The induced field of a carbonyl group (C=0) deshields protons in much Ihe same way lhal a carbon-carbon double bond does and Ihe presence of oxygen makes il even more eleclron wilhdrawmg Thus protons attached to C=0 m aldehydes are Ihe leasl shielded of any protons bonded to carbon They have chemical shifts m Ihe range 8 9-10... 

NMR Similarly carbons that are bonded to nitrogen are more shielded than those bonded to oxygen as revealed by comparing the chemical shifts of methylamme and methanol... 

Table 7.44 Estimation of Chemical Shift of Proton Attached to a Double Bond 7.95...

Table 7.52 Estimation of Chemical Shifts of Carbon Attached to a Double Bond 7.103...

Substituents on both sides of the double bond are considered separately. Additional vinyl carbons are treated as if they were alkyl carbons. The method is applicable to alicyclic alkenes in small rings carbons are counted twice, i.e., from both sides of the double bond where applicable. The constant in the equation is the chemical shift for ethylene. The effect of other substituent groups is tabulated below. 

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