Heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation

Long-range Heteronuclear Chemical Shift Correlation 

The increase in sensitivity afforded by the proton-detected HMBC experiment revolutionized structure elucidation studies. The utilization of HMBC data in the characterization of alkaloid structures has been reviewed [70] and is also treated in a more general review of the application of inverse-detected methods in natural products structure elucidation [71]. Other applications of the experiment are quite 

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A second 2D NMR method called HETCOR (heteronuclear chemical shift correlation) is a type of COSY in which the two frequency axes are the chemical shifts for different nuclei usually H and With HETCOR it is possible to relate a peak m a C spectrum to the H signal of the protons attached to that carbon As we did with COSY we 11 use 2 hexanone to illustrate the technique... 

HETCOR (Section 13 19) A 2D NMR technique that correlates the H chemical shift of a proton to the chemical shift of the carbon to which it is attached HETCOR stands for heteronuclear chemical shift correlation Heteroatom (Section 1 7) An atom in an organic molecule that IS neither carbon nor hydrogen Heterocyclic compound (Section 3 15) Cyclic compound in which one or more of the atoms in the nng are elements other than carbon Heterocyclic compounds may or may not be aromatic... 

Heteronuclear chemical shift-correlated spectroscopy, commonly called H-X COSY or HETCOR has, as the name implies, different and F frequencies. The experiment uses polarization transfer from the nuclei to the C or X nuclei which increases the SNR. Additionally, the repetition rate can be set to 1—3 of the rather than the longer C. Using the standard C COSY, the ampHtude of the C signals are modulated by the... 

HETCOR (Section 13.19) A 2D NMR technique that correlates the H chemical shift of a proton to the C chemical shift of the carbon to which it is attached. HETCOR stands for heteronuclear chemical shift correlation. 

Unlike HMBC /GHMBC and related long-range heteronuclear chemical shift correlation experiments, which have hundreds of reported applications in the published literature, there are considerably fewer reported applications of 1,1-ADEQUATE and related long-range variants in the literature. In part, the dearth of reported applications can be attributed to the considerably lower sensitivity of these experiments relative to, for example HMBC/GHMBC. Sensitivity concerns are largely ameliorated,... 

LC-NMR plays a central role in the on-line identification of the constituents of crude plant extracts (Wolfender and others 2003). This technique alone, however, will not provide sufficient spectroscopic information for a complete identification of natural products, and other hyphenated methods, such as LC-UV-DAD and LC-MS/MS, are needed for providing complementary information. Added to this, LC-NMR experiments are time-consuming and have to be performed on the LC peak of interest, identified by prescreening with LC-UV-MS. NMR applied to phenolic compounds includes H NMR,13 C NMR, correlation spectroscopy (COSY), heteronuclear chemical shift correlation NMR (C-H HECTOR), nuclear Overhauser effect in the... 

NMR spectra of solids, and thus soil, are obtained by what is called magic angle spinning. The spectra obtained have broader absorption features than NMR spectra of components in solution or liquids. Numerous NMR experiments such as 3H—13C heteronuclear chemical shift correlation (HETCOR), which identifies which hydrogen atoms are attached to which carbon atoms, can also be carried out on solid samples. A great deal of useful information about the structure of components in soil can thus be obtained from NMR investigations [5,6],... 

The earliest of the magnetization transfer experiments is the spin population inversion (SPI) experiment [27]. By selectively irradiating and inverting one of the 13C satellites of a proton resonance, the recorded proton spectrum is correspondingly perturbed and enhanced. Experiments of this type have been successfully utilized to solve complex structural assignments. They also form the basis for 2D-heteronuclear chemical shift correlation experiments that are discussed in more detail later in this chapter. 

Direct heteronuclear chemical shift correlation Conceptually, the 2D J-resolved experiments lay the groundwork for heteronuclear chemical shift correlation experiments. For molecules with highly congested 13C spectra, 13C rather than XH detection is desirable due to high resolution in the F% dimension [40]. Otherwise, much more sensitive and time-efficient proton or so-called inverse -detected heteronuclear chemical shift correlation experiments are preferable [41]. 

The most recent developments in 2D NMR of solids are the heteronuclear chemical shift correlation spectroscopy (421), 2D exchange NMR, which enables very slow molecular reorientations to be monitored (422), and heteronuclear. /-resolved 2D NMR (423). 

High resolution MAS techniques of 13C, DEPT, correlated spectroscopy (COSY), total correlation spectroscopy (TOCSY), heteronuclear chemical shift correlation (HETCOR) were used to examine conventional CBS and efficient TMTD vulcanisation of polybutadiene [37]. In conventional CBS vulcanisation, the major vulcanisate 13C NMR peak occurred at 44.9 ppm and was assigned to a trans allylic structure (-C=C-C-Sx with X=3 or 4). The efficient TMTD vulcanisation yielded as main product a 13C NMR peak at 54.0 ppm and was assigned to a cis allylic vulcanisate (-C=C-C-Sx x=l). While cyclic sulfur by-products were observed in both vulcanisation systems, the CBS formulations gave rise to a higher percentage postulated to be formed via a episulfide intermediate. 

Long-range heteronuclear chemical shift correlations were observed for... 

Figure 6-21 illustrates this procedure for an adamantane derivative. The H frequencies are on the vertical axis and the C frequencies are on the horizontal axis. The respective spectra are illustrated on the left and at the top. The 2D spectrum is composed only of cross peaks, each one relating a carbon to its directly bonded proton(s). There are no diagonal peaks (and no mirror symmetry associated with a diagonal), because two different nuclides are represented on the frequency dimensions. Quaternary carbons are invisible to the technique, as the fixed times A and A2 normally are set to values for one-bond couplings. This experiment often is a necessary component in the complete assignment of H and resonances. Its name, HETeronuclear chemical Shift CORrelation, usually is abbreviated as HETCOR, but other acronyms (e.g., HSC, for Heteronuclear Shift Correlation, and H, C-COSY, also are used. The method may be applied to protons coupled to many other nuclei, such as Si, and P, as well as C. 

It is also important that LP not be abused. A sufficient number of increments must be taken from which the FID s can confidently be extended. A total of 64 increments has, for example, been found to be insufficient, while LP s have successfully been carried out with 96 increments. A good practice is to acquire at least 128 increments for accurate prediction. A second concern is that LP not be extended too far (e.g., 128 points predicted to 4,096). W. F. Reynolds (2002) has found that, as a general rule, data presented in the phase-sensitive mode can be predicted fourfold (e.g., 256 data points can be predicted to 1,024), while absolute-value data can be extended twofold, 256 points to 512. A significant exception to the fourfold rule for phase-sensitive experiments concerns the H-detected, heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation experiments. In marked contrast to COSY and HMBC spectra, for which the interferograms are frequently composed of many signals, those of HMQC and HSQC spectra constitute only one (due to the directly attached C). LP s up to sixteen-fold can be performed in these experiments (Sections 7-8a and 7-8b). 

A new mathematical technique for processing 2D data, known as the filter diagonaliza-tion method (FDM), was recently developed by A. J. Shaka. The technique accomplishes goals similar to those aimed at in LP. In this method, even fewer time-incremented spectra, namely, two to four increments for an HMQC or HSQC experiment, are collected than with LP. FDM appears to be best suited for those heteronuclear chemical-shift-correlated experiments for which there are a limited number of v signals for any particular frequency V2 [e.g., for HMQC or HSQC spectra when the maximum number of v ( C) signals per U2( H) frequency is unity]. 

Section 7-8 Direct Heteronuclear Chemical-Shift Correlation Via Scalar Coupling 257... 

Heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation experiments usually involve protons as one of the nuclei and can be performed by detecting either protons or the X nuclei (the most common being C Section 6-2). The principal advantage of H-detected experiments is their sensitivity, which is a function of the gyromagnetic ratios (yh/Yx) - terms of the ratios of Larmor frequencies (instead of y s) at, say, 400 MHz for and 100 MHz for C, the benefit of detecting H rather than C is (400/100) / = 8. 

X-nucleus-detected experiments, however, have an advantage that can become important. In heteronuclear, chemical-shift correlation experiments, it is, as a rule, better to detect the nucleus with the more congested spectrum, which is almost always protons. On occasion, however, X-nucleus spectra are more crowded than their counterparts. In this situation, it could be better (if sensitivity permits) to carry out an experiment that detects the X nuclei. 

The two principal H-detected, direct, heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation experiments are HMQC and HSQC. The X-nucleus-detected counterpart is HETCOR, The and X-nucleus spectral widths are reduced in each of these experiments. It is important to remember that the latter should be decreased to contain only the signals of protonated X nuclei. Quaternary carbons, for example, do not participate in these experiments, and their signals should not be included in the reduced spectral windows. 

Heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation experiments can be performed by detecting either protons or the X nuclei (Section 7-8). All of the comments that were made there for the direct, heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation experiments apply equally well to their indirect (or longer range—e.g., two- and three-bond correlation) counterparts. 

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