Proton NMR analyses, shielding mechanisms, coupling constants, and conformations in steroids bearing halogen, hydroxy, and oxo groups and double bonds
Proton NMR analyses, shielding mechanisms, coupling constants, and conformations in steroids bearing halogen, hydroxy, and oxo groups and double bonds
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质子 NMR 分析、屏蔽机制、耦合常数以及带有卤素、羟基、氧代基团和双键的类固醇的构象
DOI:
10.1021/ja00310a046
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
U. Siehl
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作者:
H. Schneider;U. Buchheit;N. Becker;G. Schmidt;U. Siehl
The* H NMR analyses of 16 5<* H-androstanes and one progesterone analogue furnish shifts and coupling constants for thebasic steroid skeleton and substituent-induced shifts (SIS) for oxo, hydroxy, and halogen groups as well as for a 5 double bond. It is shown how a single 2D experiment complemented by a NOE difference spectrum can lead to complete assignments even with themost complicated spin systems comprising, eg, 29 strongly coupled protons within only 1 ppm; the accuracy of information from 2Dtechniques is evaluated by comparison to some ID and computer-simulated spectra. On the basis of up to six simultaneously observable couplings, a special approach is used to scan the conformational space of particularly flexible parts. Intermediate conformations between half-chair and twist are obtained with a torsional C14-C15-C16-07 angle of s 20’for the D ring with a sp2 (17-oxo) carbon and of s 10 with only sp3 carbon atoms; the observed fiat profiles, however, allow also for mixturesof different conformations, which is supported by MM2 calculations. For the 4-3-A ring, a sofa conformation is favored compared to a half-chair geometry. Theobserved shielding effects of heterosubstituents are partially at variance with the few earlier observations, which were mostly based on polysubstituted compounds. Classical shielding mechanisms were evaluated with the program shift, based on force-field-minimized structures. Steric-induced shielding dominates in the hydrocarbon, leading to upfield shifts increasing with the number of 1, 3-diaxial interactions. Linear electric-field effects predict, eg, the shielding difference between equatorial and axial protons vicinal to C-Hal bonds and the deshielding observed for diaxial C-Hal/CH bond arrangements. A combination of anisotropy and electric-field effects explains all shifts observed in the ketones with the exception of protons vicinal to C= 0; a multilinear regression analysis leads to Ax! C= 0=-36 (-27) and 2= 0=-24 (-21)(10™ 3 cm3/molecule, old ApSimon values in parentheses); it is, however, demonstrated, that an analysis on the basis of NMR shifts alone leads to broad ranges of parameters. Parallels between* H and 13C NMR shifts are drawn, particularly at y and t? positions to C-Hal bonds.Several aspects make steroids a particularly attractive challenge for the application of modern NMR methods:(i) the technical problems to be surmounted with these probably most complicated spin systems;(ii) the largely undiscovered wealth of information regarding the relation between chemical shifts, coupling constants, and molecular structure;(iii) the change of biological activity with structural variation. The combination of high magnetic fields, computer-aided PFT, and in particular 2D NMR spectroscopy has already been used by several workers for the assignments of steroids, in which the presence of functionalities and double bonds has led to spectral simplification. 1, 2 Trying to find themost economical approach with these techniques, we analyzed 17 steroids including the basic skeleton androstane, which comprises 29 nonequivalent and strongly coupled protons over a range of only 1 ppm. The spectacular progress of spectral techniques finds the chemists rather unpreparedfor the intelligent digestion of the many newly accessible data. There has been very little progress in the quantitative analysis of NMR shieldingparameters after the classical studies of Zürcher, 3 ApSimon, 4 and co-workers, who were forced to limit themselves largely to the observation of few time-averaged methyl signals in steroids. A very useful number