Protonation shifts

The proton chemical shifts of the protons directly attached to the basic three carbon skeleton are found between 5.0 and 6.8 ppm. The J(H,H) between these protons is about -5 Hz. The shift region is similar to the region for similarly substituted alkenes, although the spread in shifts is smaller and the allene proton resonances are slightly upfield from the alkene resonances. We could not establish a reliable additivity rule for the allene proton shifts as we could for the shifts (vide infra) and therefore we found the proton shifts much less valuable for the structural analysis of the allene moiety than the NMR data on the basic three-carbon system. 

The chemical shift of the hydroxyl proton is variable with a range of 8 0 5-5 depending on the solvent the temperature at which the spectrum is recorded and the concentration of the solution The alcohol proton shifts to lower field m more concen trated solutions... 

In C NMR spectroscopy, three kinds of heteronuclear spin decoupling are used In proton broadband decoupling of C NMR spectra, decoupling is carried out unselectively across a frequency range which encompasses the whole range of the proton shifts. The speetrum then displays up to n singlet signals for the n non-equivalent C atoms of the moleeule. 

Small shift values for CH or CHr protons may indicate cyclopropane units. Proton shifts distinguish between alkyne CH (generally Sh = 2.5 - 3.2), alkene CH (generally 4, = 4.5-6) and aro-matic/heteroaromatic CH (Sh = 6 - 9.5), and also between rr-electron-rich (pyrrole, fiiran, thiophene, 4/ = d - 7) and Tt-electron-deficient heteroaromatic compounds (pyridine, Sh= 7.5 - 9.5). 

In Fig. 2.7 the H signal with a typieal aromatie proton shift of Sh =7.1 shows a doublet of doublets with 7-values of 8.5 Hz ortho eoupling, Jhh) and 2.5 Hz meta eoupling, V////). The ring proton in question therefore has two protons as eoupling partners, one in the ortho position 8.5... 

Figure 2.11. Proton-Proton shift correlations of a-pinene (1) [purity 99 %, CDCls, 5 % v/v, 25 °C, 500 MHz, 8 scans, 256 experiments], (a) HH COSY (b) HH TOCSY (c) selective one-dimensional HH TOCSY, soft pulse irradiation at Sh = 5.20 (signal not shown), compared with the NMR spectrum on top deviations of chemical shifts from those in other experiments (Fig. 2.14, 2.16) arise from solvent effects...

Two-dimensional carbon-proton shift correlation m one-bond CH coupling... 

HC HMQC (heteronuclear multiple quantum coherence) and HC HSQC (heteronuclear single quantum coherence) are the acronyms of the pulse sequences used for inverse carbon-proton shift correlations. These sensitive inverse experiments detect one-bond carbon-proton connectivities within some minutes instead of some hours as required for CH COSY as demonstrated by an HC HSQC experiment with a-pinene in Fig. 2.15. 

Figure 2.15. HC HSQC experiment (contour plot) of a-pinene [ CDCI3, 5 % v/v, 25 °C, 125 MHz for C, 500 MHz for h, 4 scans, 256 experiments]. This experiment gives the same information as Fig. 2.14 within 8 minutes instead of two hours required for the CH-COSY in Fig. 2.14 due to higher sensitivity because of proton detection and stronger magnetic field. Deviations of proton shifts from those in Fig. 2.14 arise from the change of the solvent. The methylene protons collapsing in Fig. 2.14 at Sh = 2.19 (200 MHz) display in this experiment an AB system with = 2.17 and Sg = 2.21 (500 MHz)...

Table 55.1. Evaluation of HH COSY and HH TOCSY for proton shift (4) assignments of the amino acids...

The results of Table 55.1 eomplete the assignment of all proton shifts of both eyelopentapeptide laetones as far as possible as shown in formula D. 

CH COSY Correlation via one-bond CH coupling, also referred to as HETCOR (heteronuclear shift correlation), provides carbon-13- and proton shifts of nuclei in C//bonds as cross signals in a 5c versus 8h diagram, assigns all C//bonds of the sample... 

The same arguments can be applied to other energetically facile interconversions of two potential reactants. For example, many organic molecules undergo rapid proton shifts (tautomerism), and the chemical reactivity of the two isomers may be quite different It is not valid, however, to deduce the ratio of two tautomers on the basis of subsequent reactions that have activation energies greater than that of the tautomerism. Just as in the case of conformational isomerism, the ratio of products formed in subsequent reactions will not be controlled by the position of the facile equilibrium. 

The close agreement of the three methods supports the contention that protonation at low temperatures first occurs at nitrogen and is followed by a proton shift to give the iminium salt (M). The rate of this rearrangement is dependent on temperature, the nature of the amine, and the nature of the carbonyl compound from which the enamine was made. Even with this complication the availability of iminium salts is not impaired since the protonation reaction is usually carried out at higher temperatures than —70°. Structurally complicated enamines such as trichlorovinyl amine can be readily protonated (17,18). 

Under acidic conditions, the first step involves protonation of the imine nitrogen followed by tautomerization to form an ene-hydrazine intermediate (7). After the tautomerization, a [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement occurs, which provides intermediate 8. Rearomatization then occurs via a proton shift to form the imine 9 which cyclizes to form the 5-membered ring 10. Finally, loss of ammonia from 11 generates the indole nucleus in 12. 

High-Resolution Solid-State NMR Study of Reversible 1,5-Proton Shifts in Organic Solids [90MRC(S)29] NMR of Pyrazoles ... 

One of the most interesting stereospecific dependences which followed from the original study (38,39) of O-acetylated hexopyranose and pento-pyranose derivatives was that of the anomeric proton shifts. In general it was found that the axially oriented anomeric protons gave resonances to higher field than the equatorially oriented protons. Many subsequent studies of pyranose derivatives (24,40) and of inositol derivatives (43)... 

Subsequently, it was shown that ring expansion of these bicyclic systems is followed by a series of proton shifts involving the isomeric 2- and 5-methyleneazepines. The former were detected spectroscopically ( H NMR) whereas, in some cases, the latter were isolated.127 For example, 4,6-dimethyl-2-methylene-3-phenyl-3-azabicyclo[4.1,0]hept-4-ene-l, 5-dicarbonitrile (28), on treatment with hydrochloric acid in chloroform, yields the 4-methyleneazepine 29, which on prolonged heating with acid is converted into the 1//-azepine 30. 

A plausible pathway is that the aromatisation of the cyclohexadienone 92 by a proton shift is accelerated in the presence of Ac20 under formation of acetate 93. The simultaneously generated acetic acid then cleaves the acetate to form the free phenol 94 (Scheme 44). This effect was observed for the first time during studies towards the total synthesis of the lipid-alternating and anti-atherosclerotic furochromone khellin 99 [64].The furanyl carbene chromium complex 96 was supposed to react with alkoxyalkyne 95 in a benzannulation reaction to give the densely substituted benzofuran derivative 97 (Scheme 45). Upon warming the reaction mixture in tetrahydrofuran to 65 °C the reaction was completed in 4 h, but only a dimerisation product could be isolated. This... 

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