Heteronuclear multiple bond correlation examples

C-NMR, COSY, HMQC (heteronuclear multiple quantum coherence), and HMBC (heteronuclear multiple bond correlation).48 Furthermore, the structure of trimer was confirmed by X-ray crystallography.48 The incorporation of 13C into the indole 3a position proved valuable in these structural determinations and in documenting the ene-imine intermediate. For example, the presence of a trimer was readily determined from its 13C-NMR spectrum (Fig. 7.7). 

There are a number of techniques stemming from the basic two-dimensional technique, which for example allow correlation between carbon atoms and the protons attached to them and correlations of carbon atoms with protons one or two bonds removed from them, heteronuclear multiple bond correlation (HMBC). 

Other strategies that show great promise in reducing NMR acquisition time utilise methods to obtain multiple sets of data from one experiment through a concept known as time-shared evolution. An example of this process that should find utility in natural products elucidation was demonstrated by a pulse sequence called CN-HMBC.93 Traditionally, a separate 13C-HMBC and 15N-HMBC were acquired independently. However, the CN-HMBC allows both 13C- and 15N-HMBC spectra to be obtained simultaneously. By acquiring both data sets simultaneously, an effective 50% time reduction can be achieved.93 This approach has also been demonstrated for a sensitivity-enhanced 2D HSQC-TOCSY (heteronuclear multiple bond correlation total correlation spectroscopy) and HSQMBC (heteronuclear single quantum... 

Ethyl nipecotate contains only one nonprotonated carbon site. Because of this lack of multiple nonprotonated carbon sites, it fails to serve as a useful example for illustrating the power of the 2-D heteronuclear multiple bond correlation (HMBC) experiment in assigning the resonances from nonprotonated C s. As a general rule, a molecule with few nonprotonated carbons will rarely require data from the HMBC experiment. 

H and 13C NMR techniques have widely been used to determine the configuration of new dioxepins and dithiepins and to elucidate the constitution and conformation of new naturally occurring substances. For example, the configuration of oximes 14 was determined by H and 13C correlated spectra, correlation spectroscopy (COSY), nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (NOESY), heteronuclear correlation (HETCOR) spectroscopy, and hetero-nuclear multiple bond correlation (E1MBC) spectroscopy <1998CCA557>. 

There are two approaches to pulse sequence classification depending on the user s occupation. For the chemist who has to solve a structural question or characterize a new compound it is the spectra obtained from the pulse sequence that is of primary importance. The NMR spectroscopist is usually more concerned with the pulse sequence structure and choice of experimental parameters and whether a particular pulse sequence can be improved or modified to solve a specific problem. These two different approaches lead to confusion in pulse sequence nomenclature such that names are often a combination of the purpose of the experiment and the sequence layout. For example the commonly used acronyms HMQC, HSQC and HMBC imply a consistent abbreviation system yet HMQC and HSQC describe the coherence state during the evolution time whilst HMBC denotes an experiment to correlate nuclei using multiple bond heteronuclear scalar coupling. 

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