Shift correlation heteronuclear couplings

The sequence that achieves this (Fig. 7.15) is a simple variant on the INEPT-based heteronuclear shift correlation sequence of Fig. 6.31 (HETCOR), so the loss in sensitivity is compensated somewhat by the use of a polarisation transfer step. In fact the only difference between the two lies in the net evolution of only shifts or only couplings for the whole of ti- The addition of a proton 180 pulse at the midpoint of ti here serves to refocus proton chemical shifts and heteronuclear coupling constants (so the X-spin 180° pulse of HETCOR becomes redundant) but leaves the proton homonuclear couplings free to evolve. The resulting spectrum therefore contains only proton multiplets in fi dispersed by the corresponding X-spin shifts in f2 (Fig. 7.16) ... 

COSY Correlated spectroscopy, two-dimensional shift correlations via spin-spin coupling, homonuclear (e.g. HH) or heteronuclear (e.g. CH)... 

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... 

In homonuclear-shift-correlated experiments, the Ft domain corresponds to the nucleus under observation in heteronuclear-shift-correlated experiments. Ft relates to the unobserved or decoupled nucleus. It is therefore necessary to set the spectral width SW, after considering the ID spectrum of the nucleus corresponding to the Ft domain. In 2D /-resolved spectra, the value of SW depends on the magnitude of the coupling constants and the type of experiment. In both homonuclear and heteronuclear experiments, the size of the largest multiplet structure, in hertz, determines... 

SWi, which in turn is related to the homonuclear or heteronuclear coupling constants. In homonuclear 2D spectra, the transmitter offset frequency is kept at the center of (i.e., at = 0) and F domains. In heteronuclear-shift-correlated spectra, the decoupler offset frequency is kept at the center (Fi = 0) of thei i domain, with the domain corresponding to the invisible or decoupled nucleus. 

A more useful type of 2D NMR spectroscopy is shift-correlated spectroscopy (COSY), in which both axes describe the chemical shifts of the coupled nuclei, and the cross-peaks obtained tell us which nuclei are coupled to which other nuclei. The coupled nuclei may be of the same type—e.g., protons coupled to protons, as in homonuclear 2D shift-correlated experiments—or of different types—e.g., protons coupled to C nuclei, as in heteronuclear 2D shift-correlated spectroscopy. Thus, in contrast to /-resolved spectroscopy, in which the nuclei were being modulated (i.e., undergoing... 

The basic pulse sequence employed in the heteronuclear 2D shift-correlation (or HETCOR) experiment is shown in Fig. 5.40. The first 90° H pulse bends the H magnetization to the y -axis. During the subsequent evolution period this magnetization processes in the x y -plane. It may be considered to be made up of two vectors corresponding to the lower (a) and higher (/3) spin states of carbon to which H is coupled. These two... 

The HMQC spectrum of podophyllotoxin shows heteronuclear crosspeaks for all 13 protonated carbons. Each cross-peak represents a one-bond correlation between the C nucleus and the attached proton. It also allows us to identify the pairs of geminally coupled protons, since both protons display cross-peaks with the same carbon. For instance, peaks A and B represent the one-bond correlations between protons at 8 4.10 and 4.50 with the carbon at 8 71.0 and thus represent a methylene group (C-15). Cross-peak D is due to the heteronuclear correlation between the C-4 proton at 8 4.70 and the carbon at 8 72.0, assignable to the oxygen-bearing benzylic C-4. Heteronuclear shift correlations between the aromatic protons and carbons are easily distinguishable as cross-peaks J-L, while I represents C/H interactions between the methylenedioxy protons (8 5.90) and the carbon at 8 101.5. The C-NMR and H-NMR chemical shift assignments based on the HMQC cross-peaks are summarized on the structure. 

The SELINCOR experiment is a selective ID inverse heteronuclear shift-correlation experiment i.e., ID H,C-COSYinverse experiment) (Berger, 1989). The last C pulse of the HMQC experiment is in this case substituted by a selective 90° Gaussian pulse. Thus the soft pulse is used for coherence transfer and not for excitation at the beginning of the sequence, as is usual for other pulse sequences. The BIRD pulse and the A-i delay are optimized to suppress protons bound to nuclei As is adjusted to correspond to the direct H,C couplings. The soft pulse at the end of the pulse sequence (Fig. 7.8) serves to transfer the heteronuclear double-quantum coherence into the antiphase magnetization of the protons attached to the selectively excited C nuclei. 

Heteronuclear correlation spectroscopy (HETCOR) Shift-correlation spectroscopy in which the chemical shifts of different types of nuclei (e.g., H and C) are correlated through their mutual spin-coupling effects. These correlations may be over one bond or over several bonds. 

Fig. 10.13. 2D J-resolved NMR spectrum of santonin (4). The data were acquired using the pulse sequence shown in Fig. 10.12. Chemical shifts are sorted along the F2 axis with heteronuclear coupling constant information displayed orthogonally in F . Coupling constants are scaled as J/2, since they evolve only during the second half of the evolution period, t /2. 13C signals are amplitude modulated during the evolution period as opposed to being phase modulated as in other 13C-detected heteronuclear shift correlation experiments.

To provide the means of sampling a wider range of potential long-range heteronuclear coupling constants, an alternative version of this heteronuclear shift correlation experiment is called the accordion-optimized HMBC, or ACCORD-HMBC [50]. Additional modifications of this experiment are also available [51]. 

In 2D experiments, the precision of the measured values is determined by the precision with which peak positions can be determined in a 2D spectrum. The precision of the values measured along the F2 axis is determined by the acquisition time (as in ID spectra), but the precision of the values measured along the FI axis (i.e. indirectly detected) is determined by the maximum evolution time used in the experiment (assuming it is shorter than the 7V relaxation time of the signal). Hence, if a heteronuclear coupling [e.g. 2/(Si—H)] has to be determined with a precision of 0.1 Hz, it would require a maximum evolution time of the order of 10 s, that is, some 40,000 increments if the spectral width along FI were 4 kHz (in a correlation experiment), which is not very realistic. On the other hand, chemical shifts can be easily determined with the needed precision of 1 Hz along FI. 

In the case of an unknown chemical, or where resonance overlap occurs, it may be necessary to call upon the full arsenal of NMR methods. To confirm a heteronuclear coupling, the normal H NMR spectrum is compared with 1H 19F and/or XH 31 P NMR spectra. After this, and, in particular, where a strong background is present, the various 2-D NMR spectra are recorded. Homonuclear chemical shift correlation experiments such as COSY and TOCSY (or some of their variants) provide information on coupled protons, even networks of protons (1), while the inverse detected heteronuclear correlation experiments such as HMQC and HMQC/TOCSY provide similar information but only for protons coupling to heteronuclei, for example, the pairs 1H-31P and - C. Although interpretation of these data provides abundant information on the molecular structure, the results obtained with other analytical or spectrometric techniques must be taken into account as well. The various methods of MS and gas chromatography/Fourier transform infrared (GC/FTIR) spectroscopy supply complementary information to fully resolve or confirm the structure. Unambiguous identification of an unknown chemical requires consistent results from all spectrometric techniques employed. 

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