Chemical shift distribution

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. 

A combination of physicochemical, topological, and geometric information is used to encode the environment of a proton, The geometric information is based on (local) proton radial distribution function (RDF) descriptors and characterizes the 3D environment of the proton. Counterpropagation neural networks established the relationship between protons and their h NMR chemical shifts (for details of neural networks, see Section 9,5). Four different types of protons were... 

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. 

Figure 3 Characteristic solid state NMR line shapes, dominated by the chemical shift anisotropy. The spatial distribution of the chemical shift is assumed to be spherically symmetric (a), axially symmetric (b), and completely asymmetric (c). The top trace shows theoretical line shapes, while the bottom trace shows rear spectra influenced by broadening effects due to dipole-dipole couplings.

The study of the NMR spectra of thiophenes has attracted considerable interest, 22,24-3sb partly because the spectra of substituted thiophenes containing only a few ring hydrogens are quite suitable for complete analysis and partly because in a series of related compounds the chemical shifts observed are related to differences in the electron distribution about chemically nonequivalent hydrogens (for review, see reference 39), especially for hydrogens far removed from the substituent. 

As can be seen from the present discussion, the electron distribution inferred from the chemical shifts of monosubstituted thiophenes is in good agreement with that expected on the basis of simple resonance theory. 

The origin of the line widths of coals is attributed mainly, e.g. by Sullivan 52,53) and Maciel50), to the distributions of similar structures and chemical shifts. 

In the crystal, 17+ exhibited no interaction with either counterion or solvent molecules its Si3 skeleton represents a nearly regular triangle with Si-Si bond distances intermediate between the Si=Si and Si-Si bonds of the precursor 18. All NMR chemical shifts of 17+ were practically solvent and counterion independent, which proved its freedom in the solution. The Si NMR resonances of the skeletal Si atoms in 17+ are expectedly strongly deshielded due to the distributed positive charge on them 284.6 and 288.1 ppm. ... 

In the past two decades, 129Xe NMR has been employed as a useful technique for the characterization of the internal void space of nanoporous materials. In particular, the xenon chemical shift has been demonstrated to be very sensitive to the local environment of the nuclei and to depend strongly on the pore size and also on the pressure [4—6], Assuming a macroscopic inhomogeneity resulting from a distribution of adsorption site concentrations, 129Xe NMR spectra of xenon in zeolites have been calculated, and properties such as line widths, shapes as well as their dependence on xenon pressure can be reproduced qualitatively. A fully quantitative analysis, however, remains difficult due to the different contributions to the xenon line shift. (See Chapter 5.3 for a more detailed description of Xe spectroscopy for the characterization of porous media.)... 

DOSY is a technique that may prove successful in the determination of additives in mixtures [279]. Using different field gradients it is possible to distinguish components in a mixture on the basis of their diffusion coefficients. Morris and Johnson [271] have developed diffusion-ordered 2D NMR experiments for the analysis of mixtures. PFG-NMR can thus be used to identify those components in a mixture that have similar (or overlapping) chemical shifts but different diffusional properties. Multivariate curve resolution (MCR) analysis of DOSY data allows generation of pure spectra of the individual components for identification. The pure spin-echo diffusion decays that are obtained for the individual components may be used to determine the diffusion coefficient/distribution [281]. Mixtures of molecules of very similar sizes can readily be analysed by DOSY. Diffusion-ordered spectroscopy [273,282], which does not require prior separation, is a viable competitor for techniques such as HPLC-NMR that are based on chemical separation. 

A number of A5 n3 compounds (18) have chemical shifts in the range 127 to 178.37 A theoretical study supports the suggestion made in the last volume that these compounds are represented as phosphonium ylides with the negative charge distributed between the two sp carbon atoms bound to the phosphorus atom.3 ... 

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