Chemical shift labeling

Figure 5.3 GHMBC spectrum of a colored impurity formed during the synthesis of Tipranavir. The long-range delay in the experiment was optimized for 10 Hz the data were acquired in 12.5 h. Chemical shift labels show the chemical shift of the carbon to which a given proton is long-range coupled. As can be seen by simple inspection, there was considerable degradation of the sample during the course of the data acquisition as there are peaks in the contour plot corresponding to responses that were not observed in the proton spectrum taken at the outset of data acquisition, which is plotted above the contour plot.

Figure B2.4.3. Proton NMR spectrum of the aldehyde proton in N-labelled fonnainide. This proton has couplings of 1.76 Hz and 13.55 Hz to the two amino protons, and a couplmg of 15.0 Hz to the nucleus. The outer lines in die spectrum remain sharp, since they represent the sum of the couplings, which is unaffected by the exchange. The iimer lines of the multiplet broaden and coalesce, as in figure B2.4.1. The other peaks in the 303 K spectrum are due to the NH2 protons, whose chemical shifts are even more temperature dependent than that of the aldehyde proton.

Figure 7.6 Chemical shift (from hexamethyldisiloxane) for acrylonitrile-methyl methacrylate copolymers of the indicated methyl methacylate (Mj) content. Methoxyl resonances are labeled as to the triad source. [From R. Chujo, H. Ubara, and A. Nishioka, Polym. J. 3 670 (1972).]...

Application of NMR spectroscopy to heterocyclic chemistry has developed very rapidly during the past 15 years, and the technique is now used almost as routinely as H NMR spectroscopy. There are four main areas of application of interest to the heterocyclic chemist (i) elucidation of structure, where the method can be particularly valuable for complex natural products such as alkaloids and carbohydrate antibiotics (ii) stereochemical studies, especially conformational analysis of saturated heterocyclic systems (iii) the correlation of various theoretical aspects of structure and electronic distribution with chemical shifts, coupling constants and other NMR derived parameters and (iv) the unravelling of biosynthetic pathways to natural products, where, in contrast to related studies with " C-labelled precursors, stepwise degradation of the secondary metabolite is usually unnecessary. 

The possibility offered by new instruments to obtain N NMR spectra using natural abundance samples has made " N NMR spectroscopy a method which holds no interest for the organic chemist, since the chemical shifts are identical and the signal resolution incomparably better with the N nucleus (/ = ) than with " N (/ = 1). H- N coupling constants could be obtained from natural abundance samples by N NMR and more accurately from N-labelled compounds by H NMR. Labelled compounds are necessary to measure the and N- N coupling constants. 

Other authors have used coupling constants instead of (or simultaneously with) chemical shifts. In some cases they have been determined by NMR spectroscopy, in other cases, labeled compounds and or NMR spectroscopies have provided these couplings. These couplings have been used for determining tautomeric composition (see the discussion by Begtrup in 87MI371). Most examples involved and... 

Fig. 3. Theoretically expected cysteine Hj8 chemical shifts (ppm) for iron-sulfur proteins, together with associated temperature dependences (arrows). The arrows indicate the direction where the signals move when the temperature is rsiised. The signals Eiris-ing from systems containing nonequivEilent iron ions are labeled according to the ion to which the cysteine is bound. The case of reduced HiPIP is ansdogous to that of oxidized Fd.

After the introduction of C-labels into the protein or glycoprotein molecule, the ability to assign the resonances to specific carbon atoms is essential. In the case of glycophorin (see Fig. 1), it may readily be seen that 5 lysine residues and 1 N-terminal amino acid (per species) can be reduc-tively di[ C]methylated. This could theoretically lead to 6 resonances (or possibly more, if chemical-shift nonequivalence is observed for the dimethyl species) in the C spectrum of methylated glycophorin A. However, in most cases, the N, N -di[ C]methyllysine resonances all occur near, or at, the same frequency. It is then necessary to be able at least to assign, or... 

The one-bond HETCOR spectrum and C-NMR data of podophyllo-toxin are shown. The one-bond heteronuclear shift correlations can readily be made from the HETCOR spectrum by locating the posidons of the cross-peaks and the corresponding 5h and 8c chemical shift values. The H-NMR chemical shifts are labeled on the structure. Assign the C-NMR resonances to the various protonated carbons based on the heteronuclear correlations in the HETCOR spectrum. 

Record a ID H-NMR spectrum, and assign each proton a letter. Record the HMQC spectrum (or a one-bond HETCOR spectrum), and label each at the respective chemical shifts with the corresponding letters from the ID spectrum. 

The UV-Vis spectral detection of an intermediate in the catalytic reductive alkylation reaction provides only circumstantial evidence of the quinone methide species. If the bioreductive alkylating agent has a 13C label at the methide center, then a 13C-NMR could provide chemical shift evidence of the methide intermediate. Although this concept is simple, the synthesis of such 13C-labeled materials may not be trivial. We carried out the synthesis of the 13C-labeled prekinamycin shown in Scheme 7.5 and prepared its quinone methide by catalytic reduction in an N2 glove box. An enriched 13C-NMR spectrum of this reaction mixture was obtained within 100 min of the catalytic reduction (the time of the peak intermediate concentration in Fig. 7.2). This spectrum clearly shows the chemical shift associated with the quinone methide along with those of decomposition products (Fig. 7.3). 

A simple NMR technique, and arguably the most widely used and effective for hit validation, is the chemical shift perturbation method. In this approach, a reference spectrum of isotopically labeled target is recorded in absence and presence of a given test ligand (or a mixture of test ligands). Commonly, differences in chemical shift between free and bound protein target are observed in 2D [15N, 1H and/or 2D [13C, H] correlation spectra of a protein (or nucleic acid) upon titration of a ligand... 

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