Shift correlation, heteronuclear direct

In homonudear shift-correlation experiments like COSY we were concerned with the correlation of chemical shifts between nuclei of the same nuclear species, e.g., H with H. In heteronuclear shift-correlation experiments, however, the chemical shifts of nuclei belonging to different nuclear species are determined (e.g., H with C). These may be one-bond chemical shift correlations, e.g., between directly bound H and C nuclei, or they may be long-range chemical shift correlations, in which the interactions... 

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. 

Direct heteronuclear chemical shift correlation Conceptually, the 2D J-resolved experiments lay the groundwork for heteronuclear chemical shift correlation experiments. For molecules with highly congested 13C spectra, 13C rather than XH detection is desirable due to high resolution in the F% dimension [40]. Otherwise, much more sensitive and time-efficient proton or so-called inverse -detected heteronuclear chemical shift correlation experiments are preferable [41]. 

Using strychnine (1) as a model compound, a pair of HSQC spectra are shown in Fig. 10.16. The top panel shows the HSQC spectrum of strychnine without multiplicity editing. All resonances have positive phase. The pulse sequence used is that shown in Fig. 10.15 with the pulse sequence operator enclosed in the box eliminated. In contrast, the multiplicity-edited variant of the experiment is shown in the bottom panel. The pulse sequence operator is comprised of a pair of 180° pulses simultaneously applied to both H and 13C. These pulses are flanked by the delays, A = l/2(xJcii), which invert the magnetization for the methylene signals (red contours in Fig. 10.16B), while leaving methine and methyl resonances (positive phase, black contours) unaffected. Other less commonly used direct heteronuclear shift correlation experiments have been described in the literature [47]. 

The order in which various NMR data are acquired is largely one of user preference. Acquisition of the proton reference spectrum will invariably be undertaken first. Whether a user next seeks to establish homo- or heteronuclear shift correlations is where individual preferences come into play. Many spectro-scopists proceed from the proton reference spectrum to either a COSY or a TOCS Y spectrum next, while others may prefer to establish direct proton-carbon chemical shift correlations. This author s preference is for the latter approach. From a multiplicity-edited HSQC spectrum you obtain not only the carbon chemical shifts, which give an indication of the location of heteroatoms, the degree of unsaturation and the like, but also the number of directly attached protons, which eliminates the need for the acquisition of a DEPT spectrum [51, 52]. The statement in the prior sentence presupposes, of course, that there the sensitivity losses associated with the acquisition of multiplicity-edited HSQC data are tolerable. 

Homonuclear as well as heteronuclear 2D shift correlation experiments ( H/ H-COSY, H/ C-COSY, H/C COSY- H/ H-TOCSY), involving the perturbation of either one or two types of nuclei respectively and in the heteronuclear case including both the conventional, direct C detection, as well as the more sensitive, indirect ( inverse or reverse ) H-detection. 

The development of gradient-enhanced heteronuclear shift correlation experiments in the early 1990s heralded a major improvement in the applicability of these experiments for H- N direct and long-range heteronuclear shift correlation... 

Figure 6-21 illustrates this procedure for an adamantane derivative. The H frequencies are on the vertical axis and the C frequencies are on the horizontal axis. The respective spectra are illustrated on the left and at the top. The 2D spectrum is composed only of cross peaks, each one relating a carbon to its directly bonded proton(s). There are no diagonal peaks (and no mirror symmetry associated with a diagonal), because two different nuclides are represented on the frequency dimensions. Quaternary carbons are invisible to the technique, as the fixed times A and A2 normally are set to values for one-bond couplings. This experiment often is a necessary component in the complete assignment of H and resonances. Its name, HETeronuclear chemical Shift CORrelation, usually is abbreviated as HETCOR, but other acronyms (e.g., HSC, for Heteronuclear Shift Correlation, and H, C-COSY, also are used. The method may be applied to protons coupled to many other nuclei, such as Si, and P, as well as C. 

It is also important that LP not be abused. A sufficient number of increments must be taken from which the FID s can confidently be extended. A total of 64 increments has, for example, been found to be insufficient, while LP s have successfully been carried out with 96 increments. A good practice is to acquire at least 128 increments for accurate prediction. A second concern is that LP not be extended too far (e.g., 128 points predicted to 4,096). W. F. Reynolds (2002) has found that, as a general rule, data presented in the phase-sensitive mode can be predicted fourfold (e.g., 256 data points can be predicted to 1,024), while absolute-value data can be extended twofold, 256 points to 512. A significant exception to the fourfold rule for phase-sensitive experiments concerns the H-detected, heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation experiments. In marked contrast to COSY and HMBC spectra, for which the interferograms are frequently composed of many signals, those of HMQC and HSQC spectra constitute only one (due to the directly attached C). LP s up to sixteen-fold can be performed in these experiments (Sections 7-8a and 7-8b). 

Section 7-8 Direct Heteronuclear Chemical-Shift Correlation Via Scalar Coupling 257... 

The two principal H-detected, direct, heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation experiments are HMQC and HSQC. The X-nucleus-detected counterpart is HETCOR, The and X-nucleus spectral widths are reduced in each of these experiments. It is important to remember that the latter should be decreased to contain only the signals of protonated X nuclei. Quaternary carbons, for example, do not participate in these experiments, and their signals should not be included in the reduced spectral windows. 

Heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation experiments can be performed by detecting either protons or the X nuclei (Section 7-8). All of the comments that were made there for the direct, heteronuclear chemical-shift correlation experiments apply equally well to their indirect (or longer range—e.g., two- and three-bond correlation) counterparts. 

The simple indoloquinoline alkaloid quindoline (6), which contains two protonated NH resonances, readily afforded H- C and H- N direct heteronuclear shift correlation... 

Not all these steps may be necessary, and the direct observation of a heteronuclide, such as carbon or nitrogen, can often be replaced through its indirect observation with the more sensitive proton-detected heteronuclear shift correlation techniques. 

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