Nuclear magnetic resonance NOESY

Figure Bl.13.6. The basic elements of a NOESY spectrum. (Reproduced by penuission of Wiley from Williamson M P 1996 Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ed D M Grant and R K Harris (Chichester Wiley) pp 3262-71).

Generally, the most powerful method for stmctural elucidation of steroids is nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectroscopy. There are several classical reviews on the one-dimensional (1-D) proton H-nmr spectroscopy of steroids (267). C-nmr, a technique used to observe individual carbons, is used for stmcture elucidation of steroids. In addition, C-nmr is used for biosynthesis experiments with C-enriched precursors (268). The availability of higher magnetic field instmments coupled with the arrival of 1-D and two-dimensional (2-D) techniques such as DEPT, COSY, NOESY, 2-D J-resolved, HOHAHA, etc, have provided powerful new tools for the stmctural elucidation of complex natural products including steroids (269). 

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has proved to be a very useful tool for structural elucidation of natural products. Recent progress in the development of two-dimensional 1H- and 13C-NMR techniques has contributed to the unambiguously assignment of proton and carbon chemical shifts, in particular in complex molecules. The more used techniques include direct correlations through homonuclear (COSY, TOCSY, ROESY, NOESY) [62-65] and heteronuclear (HMQC, HMBC) [66. 67] couplings. 

NMR nuclear magnetic resonance NO-heme nitrosylheme NOESY nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy... 

Chen, Y.Y. and Bleam, W.F., Two-dimensional NOESY nuclear magnetic resonance study of pH-dependent changes in humic acid conformation in aqueous solution,... 

Abbreviations NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance 2D-NMR, two-dimensional NMR HOHAHA, 2D-NMR homonuclear Hartman-Hahn spectroscopy NOE, nuclear Overhauser effect NOESY, 2D-NMR nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy rf, radio frequency FID, free induction decay CD, circular dichroism PF4, platelet factor-4 IL-8, interleukin-8 Gro-a, growth-related protein a. 

Due to the great complexity of this class of molecules, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectroscopy (MS) are the tools most widely used to identify cucurbitacins. Both one- and two-dimensional NMR techniques have been employed for the structural elucidation of new compounds 2D NMR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, correlated spectroscopy (COSY), heteronuclear chemical shift correlation (HETCOR), attached proton test (APT), distortionless enhancement by polarization transfer (DEPT), and nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY) are common techniques for determining the proton and carbon chemical shifts, constants, connectivity, stereochemistry, and chirality of these compounds [1,38,45-47]. 

Nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE), the transfer of spin polarization from one spin population to another by cross-relaxation in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The NOE in, e.g., NOESY spectra can be used to derive distance information between two nuclei in a molecule and, hence, serves as a tool for structure elucidation. 

List of Abbreviations NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance O.D.260> optical density at 260 nm at 25 °C NOESY, nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy DQF-COSY, double quantum filtered correlation spectroscopy KP, potassium phosphate Tm, UV-melting point ER, endoplasmic reticulum PAGE, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis TSP, trisilylpropionic acid sodium salt fid, free induction decay ffh, fifty-four-homologue j57iAf, methionine-rich domain of fifty-four-homologue. 

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