Nuclear magnetic resonance solvent selection

Gisser and Ediger(41) studied solvent and solute rotation with C and nuclear magnetic resonance. The selectivity of NMR allows separate measurement of reorientation times for multiple components of a mixture. Dilute polystyrene, polyisoprene, and polybutadiene were found to retard the rotational diffusion of the toluene solvent, polystyrene being modestly more effective as a retardant. Solvent Tr depends exponentially on polymer c, at least up to 90 g/1 of polymer. Gisser and Ediger also examined the small-molecule mixture chloronaphthalene ... 

Several spectroscopic techniques, namely, Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy (UV-Vis), Infrared (IR), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), etc., have been used for understanding the mechanism of solvent-extraction processes and identification of extracted species. Berthon et al. reviewed the use of NMR techniques in solvent-extraction studies for monoamides, malonamides, picolinamides, and TBP (116, 117). NMR spectroscopy was used as a tool to identify the structural parameters that control selectivity and efficiency of extraction of metal ions. 13C NMR relaxation-time data were used to determine the distances between the carbon atoms of the monoamide ligands and the actinides centers. The II, 2H, and 13C NMR spectra analysis of the solvent organic phases indicated malonamide dimer formation at low concentrations. However, at higher ligand concentrations, micelle formation was observed. NMR studies were also used to understand nitric acid extraction mechanisms. Before obtaining conformational information from 13C relaxation times, the stoichiometries of the... 

Even with these limitations, nuclear magnetic resonance has made significant contributions to four areas of the chemistry of the platinum group metals bonding problems, molecular stereochemistry, solvation and solvent effects, and dynamic systems—reaction rates. Selected examples in each of these areas are discussed in turn. Because of space limitations, this review is not meant to be comprehensive. 

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