Stereospecificity of 1H, 13C and 15N shielding constants in the isomers of methylglyoxal bisdimethylhydrazone: problem with configurational assignment based on 1H chemical shifts
Stereospecificity of 1H, 13C and 15N shielding constants in the isomers of methylglyoxal bisdimethylhydrazone: problem with configurational assignment based on 1H chemical shifts
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10.1002/mrc.3828
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发表时间:
2012-07-01
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2
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Keiko, Natalia A.
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Afonin, Andrei V.;Pavlov, Dmitry V.;Keiko, Natalia A.
In the 13C NMR spectra of methylglyoxal bisdimethylhydrazone, the 13C-5 signal is shifted to higher frequencies, while the 13C-6 signal is shifted to lower frequencies on going from the EE to ZE isomer following the trend found previously. Surprisingly, the 1H-6 chemical shift and 1J(C-6,H-6) coupling constant are noticeably larger in the ZE isomer than in the EE isomer, although the configuration around the CH-N bond does not change. This paradox can be rationalized by the C-H=N intramolecular hydrogen bond in the ZE isomer, which is found from the quantum-chemical calculations including Bader's quantum theory of atoms in molecules analysis. This hydrogen bond results in the increase of d(1H-6) and 1J(C-6,H-6) parameters. The effect of the CH?N hydrogen bond on the 1H shielding and one-bond 13C1H coupling complicates the configurational assignment of the considered compound because of these spectral parameters. The 1H, 13C and 15N chemical shifts of the 2- and 8-(CH3)2N groups attached to the C(CH3)-N and CH-N moieties, respectively, reveal pronounced difference. The ab initio calculations show that the 8-(CH3)2N group conjugate effectively with the p-framework, and the 2-(CH3)2N group twisted out from the plane of the backbone and loses conjugation. As a result, the degree of charge transfer from the N-2 and N-8 nitrogen lone pairs to the p-framework varies, which affects the 1H, 13C and 15N shieldings. Copyright (C) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.