Nuclear magnetic resonance complex mixtures

The modern electronic industry has played a very important role in the development of instrumentation based on physical-analytical methods As a result, a rapid boom in the fields of infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Raman, and mass spectroscopy and vapor-phase (or gas-liquid) chromatography has been observed. Instruments for these methods have become indispensable tools in the analytical treatment of fluonnated mixtures, complexes, and compounds The detailed applications of the instrumentation are covered later in this chapter. 

Laughlin et al. [122] analysed chloroform extracts of tributyltin dissolved in seawater using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. It was shown that an equilibrium mixture occurs which contains tributyltin chloride, tributyl tin hydroxide, the aquo complex, and a tributyltin carbonate species. Fluorometry has been used to determine triphenyltin compounds in seawater [123]. Triph-enyltin compounds in water at concentrations of 0.004-2 pmg/1 are readily extracted into toluene and can be determined by spectrofluorometric measurements of the triphenyltin-3-hydroxyflavone complex. 

Hyphenated analytical techniques such as LC-MS, which combines liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, are well-developed laboratory tools that are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry. Eor some compounds, mass spectrometry alone is insufficient for complete structural elucidation of unknown compounds nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) can help elucidate the structure of these compounds (see Chapter 20). Traditionally, NMR experiments are performed on more or less pure samples, in which the signals of a single component dominate. Therefore, the structural analysis of individual components of complex mixtures is normally time-consuming and less cost-effective. The... 

On the other hand, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools for the structure elucidation of organic compounds. However, to solve the molecnlar strnctnre of a novel substance by NMR spectroscopy alone is often time-consnming (when compared to MS). Besides, the identification of components in a complex mixture usually requires the separation and/or isolation of the components of interest prior to NMR analysis. Therefore mnltiple preparatory chromatographic... 

FTMS also has the potential of becoming an important tool for determining molecular structure. Traditionally, mass spectrometry has been rather limited in its ability to determine the structure of an unknown compound unambiguously. Additional structural methods, such as nuclear magnetic resonance or crystallography, are commonly used in conjunction with mass spectrometry to elucidate the identity of a molecule. However, when the amount of sample is severely limited or when the sample is a component in a complex mixture, mass spectrometry is often one of the few analytical techniques that can be used. 

The task of isolating and identifying minute amounts of an active ingredient in a complex natural mixture is usually formidable. If we consider the natural sex lures, only two have been identified thus far and these only after 20 years of effort. However, new techniques promise to facilitate future exploits of this kind. With the many new forms of chromatography—adsorptive, partition, paper, gas, and thin-layer—infrared and ultraviolet spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, mass spectrometry, and now nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, a wealth of information may be collected on minute amounts of material, and the material is frequently completely recoverable. 

Silver(I) ions have been observed to form complexes with benzene in aqueous solution. Nuclear magnetic resonance and solubility studies of aqueous silver nitrate-benzene mixtures established the presence of the cations [(CeHe)Ag]+ and [(CeHe)Ag2]+ (10. 164). 

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