Nuclear Overhauser effect difference experiment

In Chapter 3 (Section 3.16), there is a description of the nuclear Overhauser effect difference experiment, an experiment that provides information about H— H through-space proximity. Review of this section is helpful before proceeding here. The ROESY experiment, rotating-frame Overhauser effect spectroscopy, is a useful 2-D analogue of the nuclear Overhauser effect difference experiment. This experiment is useful for molecules of all sizes whereas the related experiment, NOESY (nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy), is not very useful with small molecules. NOESY is used primarily with biological macromolecules. Both NOESY and ROESY experiments correlate protons that are close to each other in space, typically 4.5 A or less. 

Kotovych G, Aarts G H M 1982 Application of the nuclear Overhauser effect difference experiment assignment of the configuration of carboprostacyclin. Org Magn Res 18 77-81... 

The above data clearly suggest a dibenzazonine structure with two methoxyl and two hydroxyl groups as substituents, their locations being determined by nuclear Overhauser effect difference spectroscopy experiments (Fig. 1). Several derivatives of crassifolazonine (2) were prepared and characterized (2a-2c). Final proof for the proposed structure of crassifolazonine (2) was obtained by its total synthesis (15). 

Another intriguing sugar-based metabolite from a cyanobacterium is cyclodextrin 33, isolated from a Hawaiian Tolypothrix byssoidea strain. A range of related metabolites were produced these proved inseparable and were analyzed as a mixture. However, acetylation of the mixture yielded peracetate derivatives that could be separated by HPLC and analysis of both the purified peracetate and the unmodified mixture was used in the elucidation of the major component 33. MS and extensive NMR analysis led to the structure shown. 2D NMR analysis was crucial in the determination of the individual sugar units, while their sequence was solved by difference nuclear overhauser effect (NOE) experiments. The configurations of all sugar units were presumed to be D on the basis of comparison with related cyclodextrins. The Tolypothrix cyclodextrins were found to block the activity of some of the other toxic metabolites produced by this cyanobacterium. " ... 

Clark I, II and Adamsite can also be detected by NMR techniques. Using and along with CH-COSY (correlation spectroscopy) and NOESY (nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy) experiments. Mesilaakso and coworkers were able to obtain spectra of all three analytes in three different solvents, CDCI3, CD2CI2 and (CD3)2CO [81. They also tested a range of analysis temperatures. Between the solvents and the temperatures, they were able to show that overall the same spectra were obtained and chemical shifts can easily be determined when experimental parameters vary. 

For large molecules, such as proteins, the main method in use is a 2D technique, called NOESY (nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy). The basic experiment [33, 34] consists of tluee 90° pulses. The first pulse converts die longitudinal magnetizations for all protons, present at equilibrium, into transverse magnetizations which evolve diirhig the subsequent evolution time In this way, the transverse magnetization components for different protons become labelled by their resonance frequencies. The second 90° pulse rotates the magnetizations to the -z-direction. 

TTie TOCSY 2D NMR experiment correlates all protons of a spin system, not just those directly connected via three chemical bonds. For the protein example, the alpha proton, Ft , and all the other protons are able to transfer magnetization to the beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon protons if they are connected by a continuous chain—that is, the continuous chain of protons in the side chains of the individual amino acids making up the protein. The COSY and TOCSY experiments are used to build so-called spin systems—that is, a list of resonances of the chemical shift of the peptide main chain proton, the alpha proton(s), and all other protons from each aa side chain. Which chemical shifts correspond to which nuclei in the spin system is determined by the conventional correlation spectroscopy connectivities and the fact that different types of protons have characteristic chemical shifts. To connect the different spin systems in a sequential order, the nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy... 

Chemical shift correlated NMR experiments are the most valuable amongst the variety of high resolution NMR techniques designed to date. In the family of homonuclear techniques, four basic experiments are applied routinely to the structure elucidation of molecules of all sizes. The first two, COSY [1, 2] and TOCSY [3, 4], provide through bond connectivity information based on the coherent (J-couplings) transfer of polarization between spins. The other two, NOESY [5] and ROESY [6] reveal proximity of spins in space by making use of the incoherent polarization transfer (nuclear Overhauser effect, NOE). These two different polarization transfer mechanisms can be looked at as two complementary vehicles which allow us to move from one proton atom of a molecule to another proton atom this is the essence of a structure determination by the H NMR spectroscopy. 

The stereoselectivity of the jco-cyclization was extremely high and only the (Z)-isomers were formed as confirmed by nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) difference experiments <1997SC367>. 

Nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) difference measurements were used to assign structure 79 for the product of reaction of diphenylnitrile imine with 5-ethylsulfonyl-2-methyl(27/)pyridazinone. Thus in the H NMR spectrum the ot/, o-protons of the arylhydrazino moiety (which were identified by two-dimensional heteronuclear multiple quantum correlation (2-D HMQC) spectroscopy) were shown in differential NOE (DNOE) experiment to be significantly enhanced on irradiation of pyridazine hydrogen H-7, proving their steric proximity <2000JST13>. 

The nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) is a consequence of the modulation of the dipole-dipole interactions (through space) between different nuclei and is correlated with the inverse sixth power of the internuclear distance. Experimentally, the NOE is the fractional change in intensity of one resonance when another resonance is irradiated in a double-irradiation experiment. The NOE phenomenon is intimately related to spin relaxation. The NOE varies as a function of the product of the Larmor frequency, co0, and the rotational correlation time, tc. In small molecules, tc is short relative to uo"1. In this extreme motional narrowing situation, the frequency... 

A slightly more complicated case of nuclear Overhauser effect was recently observed in our laboratory in the photoreduction of furil. Furil is considered as a weakly coupled AMX three-proton spin system and the dipolar cross relaxation involves the interplay of all three spins. The experiments were done in a light-modulation mode with a FT spectrometer and a detailed theoretical analysis of the experimental data will allow the evaluation of the various different cross-relaxation rates (138). ... 

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