Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance ›› 2017, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (1): 69-77.doi: 10.11938/cjmr20170109

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Substituent Effects on the 1H NMR Chemical Shifts of CH=N(O) Bridge Group in Diaryl Nitrone

CAO Chao-tun, LUO Qing-qing, CAO Chen-zhong   

  1. Key Laboratory of Theoretical Organic Chemistry and Function Molecule, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of QSAR/QSPR of Hunan Provincial Universities, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
  • Received:2016-01-27 Revised:2017-01-05 Online:2017-03-05 Published:2017-03-05

Abstract: A series of substituted diaryl nitrones XArCH=N(O)ArY were synthesized, and their 1H NMR spectra were measured. The 1H chemical shift of the CH=N(O) bridge groups, δH[CH=N(O)], in each compound was determined. The effects of substituents X and Y on δH[CH=N(O)] were investigated quantitatively. A four parameters correlation equation was constructed to model the changes of δH[CH=N(O)] with substituents, yielding a standard error of 0.020. The result indicated that δH[CH=N(O)] in substituted diaryl nitrones are mainly affected by four factors:field/inductive effect (S) of substituent X[σF(X)], conjugative effect of substituent Y[σR(X)], substituent specific cross-interaction effect between X and Y (Δσ2) and substituent specific crossinteraction effect between X and O-[Δσ2(X-O-)]. Among these factors, the contribution of Δσ2(X-O-) to δH[CH=N(O)] was more than 70%. A comparison of δH[CH=N(O)] in substituted diaryl nitrones to δH(CH=N) of the CH=N bridge group in diaryl Schiff base XArCH=NArY revealed no good linear relationship between δH[CH=N(O)] and δH(CH=N). Therefore it should be noted that one cannot simply use the change of δH(CH=N) to deduce the change of δH[CH=N(O)] when carrying out organic molecule structure elucidation with NMR spectra.

Key words: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), substituent specific cross-interaction effect, 1H NMR chemical shift, substituent effect, diaryl nitrone, diaryl Schiff base

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