Shift a-proton

In C NMR spectroscopy, the carbene carbon resonates at ca. 140-400ppm to low field of SiMe4. This is probably a result of the existence of low-energy electronic excited states for the complex, which leads to a large paramagnetic contribution to the shift. A proton substituent at the carbene carbon resonates from 4-10 to 4-20 ppm. 

The magnitude of the chemical shift depends on the nature of the valence and inner electrons of the nucleus and even on electrons that are not directly associated with the nucleus. Chemical shifts are influenced by inductive effects, which reduce the electron density near the nucleus and reduce the shielding. The orientation of the nucleus relative to tt electrons also plays an important role in determining the chemical shift. A proton located immediately outside a TT-electron system (as in the case of the protons on benzene rings) will be significantly deshielded. In most molecules the chemical shift is determined by a combination of these factors. Chemical shifts are difficult to predict using theoretical principles, but have been weU studied and can usually be easily predicted empirically upon comparison to reference data. 

This proton only shows J couplings. Hb is ortho to a caiboxyl group while He is ortho to a nitro group. Both protons are deshielded, but the nitro group shifts a proton further downfield than for... 

The similarity of the retrieved protons to those of the query structure, and the distribution of chemical shifts among protons with the same HOSE codes, can be used as measures of prediction reliability. When common substructures cannot be found for a given proton (within a predefined number of bond spheres) interpolations are applied to obtain a prediction proprietary methods are often used in commercial programs. 

Neural networks can learn automatically from a data set of examples. In the case of NMR chemical shiffs, neural networks have been trained to predict the chemical shift of protons on submission of a chemical structure. Two main issues play decisive roles how a proton is represented, and which examples are in the data set. 

A proton can be (numerically) represented by a series of topological and physicochemical descriptors, which account for the influence of the neighborhood on its chemical shift. Fast empirical procedures for the calculation of physicochemical descriptors are now easily accessible [45. Geometric descriptors were added in the case of some rigid substructures, as well as for rr-systems, to account for stereochemistry and 3D effects. 

A relatively small training set of 744 NMR chemical shifts for protons from 1 20 molecular structures was collected from the literature. This set was designed to cover as many situations of protons in organic structures as possible. Only data from spectra obtained in CDCl, were considered. The collection was restricted to CH protons and to compounds containing the elements C, H, N, 0, S, F, Cl, Br. or I. 

Counterpropagation neural networks (CFG NN) were then used to establish relationships between protons and their H NMR chemical shifts. A detailed description of this method is given in the Tools Section 10,2.4.2,... 

A combination of physicochemical, topological, and geometric information is used to encode the environment of a proton, The geometric information is based on (local) proton radial distribution function (RDF) descriptors and characterizes the 3D environment of the proton. Counterpropagation neural networks established the relationship between protons and their h NMR chemical shifts (for details of neural networks, see Section 9,5). Four different types of protons were... 

Protons are equivalent to one another and have the same chemical shift when they are m equivalent environments Often it is an easy matter to decide simply by mspec tion when protons are equivalent or not In more difficult cases mentally replacing a proton m a molecule by a test group can help We 11 illustrate the procedure for a sim pie case—the protons of propane To see if they have the same chemical shift replace one of the methyl protons at C 1 by chlorine then do the same thing for a proton at C 3 Both replacements give the same molecule 1 chloropropane Therefore the methyl protons at C 1 are equivalent to those at C 3... 

Each cross peak has x and y coordinates One coordinate corresponds to the chem real shift of a proton the other to the chemical shift to a proton to which it is coupled Because the diagonal splits the 2D spectrum m half each cross peak is duplicated on the other side of the other diagonal with the same coordinates except m reverse order This redundancy means that we really need to examine only half of the cross peaks To illustrate start with the lowest field signal (8 2 4) of 2 hexanone We assign fhis signal a friplef fo fhe protons af C 3 on fhe basis of ifs chemical shifl and fhe spin fmg evidenf m fhe ID speefrum... 

HETCOR (Section 13 19) A 2D NMR technique that correlates the H chemical shift of a proton to the chemical shift of the carbon to which it is attached HETCOR stands for heteronuclear chemical shift correlation Heteroatom (Section 1 7) An atom in an organic molecule that IS neither carbon nor hydrogen Heterocyclic compound (Section 3 15) Cyclic compound in which one or more of the atoms in the nng are elements other than carbon Heterocyclic compounds may or may not be aromatic... 

Table 7.44 Estimation of Chemical Shift of Proton Attached to a Double Bond 7.95...

The displacement 5 of individual resonances from that of a standard are small and are measured in parts per million (ppm) relative to the applied field. These chemical shifts are characteristic of a proton in a specific environment,... 

The mechanism of these reactions involves the rapid and reversible addition of a proton to the aromatic ring, followed by 1,2-intramolecular methyl shifts (10) ... 

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Nmr is a most valuable technique for stmeture determination in thiophene chemistry, especially because spectral interpretation is much easier in the thiophene series compared to benzene derivatives. Chemical shifts in proton nmr are well documented for thiophene (CDCl ), 6 = 7.12, 7.34, 7.34, and 7.12 ppm. Coupling constants occur in well-defined ranges J2-3 = 4.9-5.8 ... 

When the lone electron pair is protonated, the nitrogen chemical shift moves by ca. 100 p.p.m, to higher field. Large upheld shifts are also found when a compound exists in a tautomeric form with a proton on the nitrogen. The nitrogen NMR spectrum is often of considerable value in studies of tautomerism of this type. 

It is convenient to reference the chemical shift to a standard such as tetramethylsilane [TMS, (C//j)4Si] rather than to the proton fC. Thus, a frequency difference (Hz) is measured for a proton or a carbon-13 nucleus of a sample from the H or C resonance of TMS. This value is divided by the absolute value of the Larmor frequency of the standard (e.g. 400 MHz for the protons and 100 MHz for the carbon-13 nuclei of TMS when using a 400 MHz spectrometer), which itself is proportional to the strength Bg of the magnetic field. The chemical shift is therefore given in parts per million (ppm, 5 scale, Sh for protons, 5c for carbon-13 nuclei), because a frequency difference in Hz is divided by a frequency in MHz, these values being in a proportion of 1 1O. ... 

If a sample contains groups that can take up or lose a proton, (N//, COO//), then one must expect the pH and the concentration to affect the chemical shift when the experiment is carried out in an acidic or alkaline medium to facilitate dissolution. The pH may affect the chemical shift of more distant, nonpolar groups, as shown by the amino acid alanine (38) in neutral (betaine form 38a) or alkaline solution (anion 38b). The dependence of shift on pH follows the path of titration curves it is possible to read off the pK value of the equilibrium from the point of inflection... 

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