Upheld,

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of 2-aminothiazole and of 2-imino-4-thiazoline were reported during the studies related to protomeric equilibria (125-127) ring protons in the former are centered at 6.48 and 7.14 ppm (internal Me4Si), while those in the latter are shifted upheld to 5.8 and 6.5 ppm (125). 

By trapping PX at liquid nitrogen temperature and transferring it to THF at —80° C, the nmr spectmm could be observed (9). It consists of two sharp peaks of equal area at chemical shifts of 5.10 and 6.49 ppm downfield from tetramethylsilane (TMS). The fact that any sharp peaks are observed at all attests to the absence of any significant concentration of unpaired electron spins, such as those that would be contributed by the biradical (11). Furthermore, the chemical shift of the ring protons, 6.49 ppm, is well upheld from the typical aromatic range and more characteristic of an oletinic proton. Thus the olefin stmcture (1) for PX is also supported by nmr. 

Substituent effects are often considerable, particularly when strongly electron-donating effects (to the aza-nitrogen) are present, when upheld shifts of up to 60 p.p.m. (2-NH2) may be observed. 

Hydrogen bonding to the nitrogen lone pair leads to an upheld shift, the extent of which depends on the proton-donor ability of the solvent, and the acceptor ability of the base shifts of some 20 p.p.m. are commonly found. 

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. 

Quinazolin-2(and 4)-one were first shown to exist as 0x0 tautomers by IR and UV spectroscopic comparisons akin to those above (52JA4834, 51JCS3318) like its pyrimidinone analogue, the quinazolinone (41) prefers that configuration to the pczra-quinonoid tautomer (57JCS4874), a conclusion upheld by the NMR study of simple analogues (69T783). 

The NMR spectral properties of the parent heterocycles are summarized in Table 12. The signal for the pyrrole a-carbon is broadened as a result of coupling with the adjacent nitrogen-14 atom (c/. Section 3.01.4.3). While the frequencies observed for the /3-carbon atoms show a fairly systematic upheld shift with increasing electronegativity of the heteroatom, the shifts for the a-carbon atoms vary irregularly. The shifts are comparable with that for benzene, S 128.7. 

As might be anticipated from the behaviour of the parent heterocycles, C-2 of indole, benzo[i]furan and benzo[i]thiophene (Table 13) is shifted to lower field than C-3. However, the shifts for C-2 (O, 144.8 Se, 128.8 S, 126.1 NH, 124.7 Te, 120.8) and C-7a (O, 155.0 Se, 141.3 S, 139.6 NH, 135.7 Te, 133.0) in the benzo[i] heterocycles vary irregularly (80OMR(l3)3l9), and the sequence is different to that observed for C-2 in the parent heterocycles, namely 0>Se>Te>S>NH. Also noteworthy is the upheld position of C-7, especially in indole and benzofuran, relative to the other benzenoid carbons at positions 4, 5 and 6. A similar situation pertains in the dibenzo heterocycles (Table 14), where not only are C-1 and C-8 shifted upheld in carbazole and dibenzofuran relative to the corresponding carbons in dibenzothiophene and fluorene, but similar, though smaller, shifts can be discerned for C-3 and C-6 in the former compounds. These carbon atoms are of course ortho and para to the heteroatom and the shifts reflect its mesomeric properties. Little variation in the carbon-hydrogen coupling constants is observed for these dibenzo compounds with V(qh) = 158-165 and V(c,h) = 6-8 Hz. 

Some available data on H NMR spectra of non-aromatic azoles containing two ring-double bonds are given in Table 10. Here there is no ring current effect and the chemical shifts are consequently more upheld. 

The chemical shifts of the pyrazolate anion (62) represented an upheld effect of 0.3 p.p.m. compared with pyrazole itself (68JA4232). 

Sparse data on the pyrazole isomers, pyrazolenines and isopyrazoles, are presented in Table 12. Besides the obvious upheld effect on the chemical shift due to the suppression of the ring current, these compounds behave normally. Data on pyrazolidinones and their salts show the behaviour of cyclic hydrazides (66T2461,67BSF3502). 

Exocyclic conjugation causes a small upheld shift of the ring hydrogen resonances, as can be seen in Table 6. The increase in tr-bond hxation also results in an increase in the 4,5 coupling constant to about 6.0 Hz. The use of coupling constants for the investigation of tautomerism is discussed in Section 4.17.5. 

Upfield (Section 13.4) The high-held region of an NMR spectrum. A signal that is upheld with respect to another lies to its right on the spectrum. 

The rate of saponification of ethyl 2-thenoate, in contrast to ethyl 3-thenoate, was found to be considerably slower than predicted from the pKa of the acid, showing that the reactivities of thiophenes do not parallel those of benzene. The first explanation, that this was produced by a steric effect of the ring sulfur similar to the case in or /lo-substituted benzenes and in ethyl 1-naphthoate, could not be upheld when the same effect was found in ethyl 2-furoate. It was later ascribed to a stereospecific acid strengthening factor, involving the proper relation of the carboxylic hydrogen and the heteroatom, as the rate of saponification of 2-thienylacrylic acid was in agreement with that predicted from the acid constants. ... 

In the HNMR spectra of 1,2,4-triazine 2-oxides the signals of the H(3) andH(6) were found to be shifted upheld by about 0.8 ppm in comparison with the parent... 

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