Heteronuclear single quantum correlation examples

No general studies have been carried out for these compounds, but there are several reports in which the stereochemistry of the final product has been elucidated by NOESY, correlation spectroscopy (COSY), or heteronuclear single quantum correlation (HSQC) experiments. For example, intensive NOESY experiments were used to establish the exact nature of each of the three cycloadducts 151a-c generated by the cycloaddition of a substituted nitrone to dimethyl (Z)-diethylenedicarboxylate <2000EJ03633>. 

The change in the chemical environment of a nucleus at the binding interface of a ligand-protein complex upon binding is likely to induce a change in chemical shift. This effect is used for example as a readout in the SAR by NMR approach to detect binding and thus identify lead molecules (33). Heteronuclear chemical shifts (particularly 13C and 15N) are widely used in such experiments and are detected via HSQC-type (heteronuclear single quantum correlation) experiments. 

A simple way of illustrating multidimensional NMR is through reference to hetero-nuclear correlation spectroscopy, in which two or more separate frequency dimensions are correlated with one another. For example, a particularly valuable 2D experiment is heteronuclear single quantum correlation (HSQC) spectroscopy, in which the resultant spectrum has two frequency axes, corresponding to and frequency dimensions, and one intensity axis. Analogous HSQC... 

A variety of examples of 2D-NMR experiments is provided in reference [21]. The structure elucidation of the di-rhodium compound shown in Figure 11.3 was mostly carried out in this way. For example, 2D 11 l-31P heteronuclear multiple quantum correlation (HMQC) experiments were used to show that two rhodium-coupled hydride resonances are connected to a single type of 31P nucleus. 

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... 

FIGURE 12.9 Example of heteronuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC) applied to allylbutyl ether (300 MHz).The correlations of H and 1 C chemical shifts are clearly shown. Note the similarity to Fig. 10.10, which displays a HETCOR spectrum. For a sample of this sort, where signal/noise ratio is no problem, there is little to choose between the two techniques, but HSQC is inherently much more sensitive. 

The inverse-detected 2D NMR experiments that have been discussed to this point have all been discrete, single-purpose experiments, e.g. correlating protons with their directly bound heteronucHde (typically or N). There are another class of inverse-detected 2D NMR experiments that are generally referred to as hyphenated 2D experiments. These are experiments that first establish one type of correlation, followed by an additional experiment segment that then pursues a further spectroscopic task. Predecessors of the inverse-detected variants of these experiments were the HC-RELAY (proton—carbon heteronuclear relayed coherence transfer) experiments pioneered by Bolton [151—155]. Examples of these include, but are by no means hmited to HXQC-COSY and -TOCSY [156—158], -NOESY [159], -ROESY [160], and more recent gradient variants [161] etc., where X = S (single) or M (multiple) quantum variants of the experiments. 

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