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In future, the methods of two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy (Section 2.10) will be the ones used for the unequivocal signal identifications of longer chain peptides. Complete 13C shift assignments are achieved from carbon-proton shift correlations via two- and three-bond couplings, as is demonstrated for the orange-red chromopeptide antibiotic actinomycin D (Fig. 5.13, Table 5.28, [603, 812]). 

Fig. 5.17. Carbon-13 signal assignment of aflatoxin B, [603] by two-dimensional carbon-proton shift correlation (30 mg in 0.4 mL of hexadeuteriodimethyl sulfoxide, 30 C, 100.576 MHz for 13C, 400.133 MHz for H full and strong contours correlations via one-bond couplings empty and weaker contours correlations via two- and Lhree-bond couplings). Boldface printed substructures in Lhe formula can be directly derived from this figure the carbon nucleus at 91.4 ppm, for example, is correlated with the proton at 6.72 ppm via one-bond coupling this proton is additionally correlated with the adjacent carbon nuclei at 165.1, 161.4, 107.2, and 103.5 ppm as indicated by correlation signals via two- and three-bond couplings.

An important point about quaternary carbons requires comment. Until now, we have had no direct correlations for carbons without protons, nor have we been able to see through heteroatoms such as oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, etc. Both the two- and three-bond coupling correlations of HMBC provide us with both types of critical information. For example, C-4 of caryophyllene oxide at 59.1 ppm has no attached protons, and so far it has only appeared in the l3C spectrum of the compound, and we know that it is quaternary... 

The proton coupled spectrum reveals a larger one-bond coupling constant (. /SiH) of about 215 Hz. The coupling pattern derived from the two- and three-bond coupling is complex but the pattern might serve as a starting point in the interpretation of 29Si spectra of reaction products. 

Si-N Bond Lengths (A), Bond and Dihedral Angles (deg.), and Corresponding Two-and Three-Bond Coupling Constants in Hexacoordinate Fluoro-Complexes50... 

Proton NMR spectra in organic molecules can be interpreted without regard to the structural carbon framework because the predominant 12C has no nuclear spin. However, 13C has a spin of V2, which not only permits its direct observation but also provides features in the H spectrum from the 13C that is present at a natural abundance of 1.1%. As we saw in Chapter 5, J(13C-H) is normally 100—200 Hz, whereas two- and three-bond coupling constants often run 5-10 Hz. Hence a resonance line from a proton attached to a 12C atom is accompanied by weak 13C satellites separated by 1J(13C-H) and placed almost symmetrically about the main line. (The departure from precisely symmetrical disposition arises from the 13C/12C isotope effect on the 1H chemical shift, as described in Section 4.8.) For example, the proton resonance of chloroform in Fig. 6.14a shows 13C satellites. 

The principal disadvantage of the COLOC sequence derives from the fact that it is a jce /-evolution-time experiment (i.e., t is incorporated into the delay time Aj). The major limitation with fixed-/] pulse sequences is that C-H correlations are considerably diminished, or completely absent, when the two- and three-bond coupling con-... 

Tokunaga, and co-workers reported using the J-HMBC experiment to measure the long-range two- and three-bond couplings in a series... 

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