C-13 NUCLEAR MAGNETIC-RESONANCE STUDIES OF BENZOCYCLOALKENES AND FLUOROBENZOCYCLOALKENES
C-13 NUCLEAR MAGNETIC-RESONANCE STUDIES OF BENZOCYCLOALKENES AND FLUOROBENZOCYCLOALKENES
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00867a002
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
KITCHING, W
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文献类型:
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作者:
ADCOCK, W;GUPTA, BD;KITCHING, W
J 1, 3 (4Jh, h) decreased and J14 (5Jh, h) increased substan-tially, and the effects of bond length, angle, and electroneg-ativity changes were discussed. UsingCNDO/2 minimized geometries, 9 impressive agreement in trends in the various Jh, h was obtained, and indicated to the authors that the calculated geometries and charge densities by CNDO/2 were, in all likelihood, close to the truth. In connection with an investigation of the 13C NMR spectra of certain silicon analogues10 of the benzocycloalk-enes, the question of “ring-strain” effects on aryl-carbon chemical shifts arose, and we therefore commenced an ex-amination of the spectra of the benzocycloalkenes them-selves. This study seemed potentially illuminating since rather substantial variations in the aryl 13C shifts were ex-pected, and could be construed as a reflection of bondorder and charge density fluctuations at the nuclei directly in the ring. In any event, the data were of considerable im-portance, since they would need to be accommodated in some way by more refined theories of the 13C chemical shift. Scattered pieces of data on one or two benzocycloalk-enes did exist in an obscure fashion in the literature, but critical spectral assignments were not substantiated. It emerged that two other parallel investigations in the same area were being conducted and were reported, 11’12 but some of the assignments in one report11 are now known to re-quire modification. In our work, it became clear that strategically fluoro-substituted derivatives of the benzocycloalk-enes were of much assistance in the vexing question of as-signments in the hydrocarbons, but in addition afforded data of other interest. The necessity to synthesise certain deuterated derivatives stimulated a curiosity in previous suggestions35’13 of NMR assignments and our conclu-sions in this direction are also presented. With the increasing appreciation of the insight available from 13C relaxation measurements, 14* we have conducted such studies with some of the benzocycloalkenes, and the systematics of the results are rationalized in terms of dif-fering contributions to relaxation from specific rotational modes.