Heteronuclear multiple-bond structure elucidation

HMBC Heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation spectroscopy To elucidate structure of organic molecules To establish long-range (i.e., multibond) heteronuclear coupling... 

Notably, two isomeric products can be generated. The usual infrared (IR) and mass spectra as well as H and 13C NMR chemical shifts could not define which isomer was formed. The authors used different NMR techniques, such as 2-D heteronuclear multiple bond correlation (HMBC) experiments and phase-sensitive nuclear overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (NOESY) measurements to elucidate the product s structure. 

The main emphasis of current carbohydrate structural analysis is the applicability of modern multi-dimensional NMR for solving the two crucial problems in complex carbohydrate structural analysis, namely, the elucidation of the sequence of glycosyl residues and the solution conformation and dynamics of a carbohydrate (150). Techniques include 2D Total Correlation Spectroscopy (TOCSY), Nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY), rotational nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (ROES Y),hetero-nuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC), heteronuclear multiple quantum correlation (HMQC), heteronuclear multiple bond correlation (HMBC), and (pseudo) 3D and 4D extensions. 

Because of the complexity of the polyether antibiotics little progress has been made in structure determination by the chemical degradation route. X-ray methods were the techniques most successfully applied for the early structure elucidations. Monensin, X206, lasalocid, lysocellin, and salinomycin were included in nineteen distinct polyether x-ray analyses reported in 1983 (190). Use of mass spectrometry (191), and 1H (192) and 13C nmr (141) are also reviewed. More recently, innovative developments in these latter techniques have resulted in increased applications for structure determinations. For example, heteronuclear multiple bond connectivity (hmbc) and homonudear Hartmann-Hahn spectroscopy were used to solve the structure of portimicin (14) (193). Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry was used in solving the structures of maduramicin alpha and co-factors (58). 

NMR has become a standard tool for structure determination and, in particular, for these of Strychnos alkaloids. The last general article in this field was authored by J. Sapi and G. Massiot in 1994 [65] and described the advances in spectroscopic methods applied to these molecules. More recently, strychnine (1) has even been used to illustrate newly introduced experiments [66]. We comment, here, on their advantages and sum up the principles of usual 2D experiments in Fig. (1) and Fig. (2) (COSY Correlation SpectroscopY, TOCSY TOtal Correlation SpectroscopY, NOESY Nuclear Overhauser Enhancement SpectroscopY, ROESY Rotating frame Overhauser Enhancement SpectroscopY, HMQC Heteronuclear Multiple Quantum Coherrence, HMBC Heteronuclear Multiple Bond Correlation). This section updates two areas of research in the field new H and 13C NMR experiments with gradient selection or/and selective pulses, 15N NMR, and microspectroscopy. To take these data into account, another section comments on the structure elucidation of new compounds isolated from Strychnos. It covers the literature from 1994 to early 2000. 

FIGURE 8.2. Flowchart for structure elucidation of purified compounds. DEPT Distortionless Enhancement by Polarization Transfer, HMBC Heteronuclear Multiple Bond Correlation, HSQC Heteronuclear Single Quantum Coherence, HMQC Heteronuclear Multiple Quantum Correlation, DQF-CQSY Double Quantum Filtered Correlated Spectroscopy and NOSEY Nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy. 

ACF = atom-centered fragment AI = artificial intelligence BAM = bond adjacency matrix CHEMICS = combined handling elucidation method for interpretable chemical structures COSY = correlated spectroscopy FBMX = free-bond connection matrix HMBC = heteronuclear multiple bond correlation spectroscopy HMQC = heteronuclear multiple quantum coherence correlation spectroscopy SESAMI = systematic elucidation of structure applying machine intelligence. 

A complex, multiply bridged 1,2,3,4-adduct of C60 (168) (Scheme 1.11) including a noninherently chiral addition pattern as well as a multitude of stereogenic centers in the addend moiety was obtained in a tandem reaction between the alkaloid scandine and Ceo-324 The sequence included a photoin-duced addition of the tertiary amine subunit of the alkaloid and a [2 + 2] cycloaddition of its vinyl group to the adjacent intrahexagonal formal double bond of the fullerene. The structural elucidation included 1H-1 H COSY-, HMQC- (heteronuclear multiple quantum coherence), HMBC-, and ROESY-(rotating frame Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy) NMR experiments and... 

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