Methyl fluoride chemical shifts, proton

Alkene- and arenesulphonic acids have been studied in strong or super acid media by NMR spectroscopy. Olah and coworkers64 in 1970 examined sulphonic acids in fluorosulphuric acid-antimony pentafluoride-sulphuryl chloride fluoride solution at low temperature ( — 60 °C). In S02 solution methanesulphonic acid has a chemical shift of <5 3.1 ppm for the methyl group. In the superacid medium there are two singlets at S 4.15 and 4.07, with ratio 60 40, for the methyl protons. It was suggested that this indicated the presence of two isomers, possibly 27 and 28, due to restricted rotation about the SO bond. 

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