Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance ›› 2019, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 65-73.doi: 10.11938/cjmr20182656

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Estimation of Formation Enthalpy for Alkanes from 13C NMR Chemical Shifts

WU Ya-xin1, CAO Chen-zhong2, TENG Li-li2   

  1. 1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Theoretical Organic Chemistry and Functional Molecular Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
  • Received:2018-05-24 Online:2019-03-05 Published:2019-02-26

Abstract: The quantitative relationship between the 13C NMR chemical shifts of alkanes and their formation enthalpy was studied. A new approach for calculating the formation enthalpy from the 13C NMR chemical shifts was proposed. The experimentally measured formation enthalpy values of 53 alkanes were correlated with the parameters SCS (the sum of chemical shift),P3 (path counts of length three bounds) and n (the number of carbon atoms). The regression results showed a good correlation (R=0.998 2,S=3.5 kJ/mol). The random sampling method and leave-one-out method were used to verify the stability and prediction ability of the model.

Key words: alkanes, formation enthalpy, 13C NMR, chemical shift, path counts of length three bounds (P3)

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