Chemical Shielding (chemical + shielding)

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Understanding chemical shielding tensors using group theory, MO analysis, and modern density-functional theory

CONCEPTS IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE, Issue 2 2009
Cory M. Widdifield
Abstract In this article, the relationships between molecular symmetry, molecular electronic structure, and chemical shielding (CS) tensors are discussed. First, a brief background on the CS interaction and CS tensors is given. Then, the visualization of the three-dimensional nature of CS is described. A simple method for examining the relationship between molecular orbitals (MOs) and CS tensors, using point groups and direct products of irreducible representations of MOs and rotational operators, is outlined. A number of specific examples are discussed, involving CS tensors of different nuclei in molecules of different symmetries, including ethene (D2h), hydrogen fluoride (C,v), trifluorophosphine (C3v), and water (C2v). Finally, we review the application of this method to CS tensors in several interesting cases previously discussed in the literature, including acetylene (D,h), the PtX42, series of compounds (D4h) and the decamethylaluminocenium cation (D5d). © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Concepts Magn Reson Part A 34A: 91,123, 2009. [source]


Structure determination of slowly exchanging conformers in solution using high-resolution NMR, computational modeling and DFT-GIAO chemical shielding: application to an erythronolide A derivative

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY, Issue 11 2009
Dieter Muri
Abstract We discuss and demonstrate the potential of HSQC-TOCSY and HSQC-NOESY experiments to offer solutions for overlap problems in COSY and NOESY spectra, leading to improved signals that can be unambiguously assigned to individual carbons. Direct comparison of experimental 1H and 13C chemical shielding with density functional theory (DFT)-calculated values are uninformative; in contrast, the relative differences in experimental shielding between pairs of molecules correlates well with the relative differences in DFT-GIAO shielding for the computed lowest energy conformers. A detailed application of both experimental and theoretical techniques is illustrated for slowly exchanging conformers of an erythronolide A derivative, which demonstrates that structure determination can strongly benefit from the interplay between experiment and theory. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Studying porous materials with krypton-83 NMR spectroscopy

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY, Issue S1 2007
Zackary I. Cleveland
Abstract This report is the first review of 83Kr nuclear magnetic resonance as a new and promising technique for exploring the surfaces of solid materials. In contrast to the spin I = 1/2 nucleus of 129Xe, 83Kr has a nuclear spin of I = 9/2 and therefore possesses a nuclear electric quadrupole moment. Interactions of the quadrupole moment with the electronic environment are modulated by surface adsorption processes and therefore affect the 83Kr relaxation rate and spectral lineshape. These effects are much more sensitive probes for surfaces than the 129Xe chemical shielding and provide unique insights into macroporous materials in which the 129Xe chemical shift is typically of little diagnostic value. The first part of this report reviews the effect of quadrupolar interactions on the 83Kr linewidth in zeolites and also the 83Kr chemical shift behavior that is distinct from that of its 129Xe cousin in some of these materials. The second part reviews hyperpolarized (hp) 83Kr NMR spectroscopy of macroporous materials in which the longitudinal relaxation is typically too slow to allow sufficient averaging of thermally polarized 83Kr NMR signals. The quadrupolar-driven T1 relaxation times of hp 83Kr in these materials are sensitive to surface chemistry, surface-to-volume ratios, coadsorption of other species on surfaces, and surface temperature. Thus, 83Kr T1 relaxation can provide information about surfaces and chemical processes in macroscopic pores and can generate surface-sensitive contrast in hp 83Kr MRI. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Investigation of structure and dynamics in the sodium metallocenes CpNa and CpNa·THF via solid-state NMR, X-ray diffraction and computational modelling

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY, Issue S1 2007
Cory M. Widdifield
Abstract Solid-state 23Na NMR spectra of two organometallic complexes, cyclopentadienylsodium (CpNa) and the tetrahydrofuran (THF) solvate of CpNa (CpNa·THF), are presented. Analytical simulations of experimental spectra and calculated 23Na electric-field gradient (EFG) tensors confirm that both complexes are present in microcrystalline samples of CpNa recrystallized from THF. For the solvate, 23Na NMR experiments at 9.4 T and 11.7 T elucidate sodium chemical shielding (CS) tensor parameters, and establish that the EFG and CS tensor frames are non-coincident. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments are used to determine the crystal structure of CpNa·THF: Cmca (a = 9.3242(15) Å, b = 20.611(3) Å, c = 9.8236(14) Å, , = , = , = 90° , V = 1887.9(5)Å3, Z = 8). For CpNa, 23Na NMR data acquired at multiple field strengths establish sodium CS tensor parameters more precisely than in previous reports. Variable-temperature (VT) powder XRD (pXRD) experiments determine the temperature dependence of the CpNa unit cell parameters. The combination of 23Na quadrupolar NMR parameters, pXRD data and calculations of 23Na EFG tensors is used to examine various models of dynamic motion in the solid state. It is proposed that the sodium atom in CpNa undergoes an anisotropic, temperature-dependent, low frequency motion within the ab crystallographic plane, in contrast with previous models. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


A Haigh,Mallion-Based Approach for the Evaluation of the Intensity Factors of Aromatic Rings

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 2 2006
Cristiano Zonta
Abstract A novel method for the determination of intensity factors of benzenoid systems based on the Haigh,Mallion (HM) theory has been developed. In this paper, the magnetic anisotropy generated by the ring-current effect in polycondensed arenes has been quantitatively calculated as nuclear independent chemical shieldings (NICSs) in a three-dimensional grid of points using the B3LYP/6-31G(d) method implemented in the Gaussian 98 program. The fitting of the calculated values to the HM model gives intensity factors for each ring. A comparison of the obtained values with Schleyer's NICS0 is given. The obtained intensity factors may find application in software using 1H NMR chemical shifts for structure determination.(© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2006) [source]


33S NMR shieldings and chemical bonding in compounds of sulfur

HETEROATOM CHEMISTRY, Issue 3 2004
D. B. Chesnut
Sulfur nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) chemical shieldings have been determined at the correlation-including density functional theory scaled B3LYP/6-311+G(nd,p)//B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) and modified MP2/6-311+G(nd,p) estimated infinite order Møller-Plesset levels with n = 2 for sulfur. The calculations span the range of sulfur shieldings and show agreement with experiment of about 3% of the shielding range. The atoms-in-molecules delocalization index and a covalent bond order from specific localized orbitals in the DFT approach are used to characterize sulfur's bonding and to relate it, where possible, to the calculated shieldings. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 15:216,224, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/hc.20000 [source]


Theoretical investigation on multinuclear NMR chemical shifts of some tris(trifluoromethyl)boron complexes

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY, Issue 8 2009
Jun Zhang
Abstract Tris(trifluoromethyl)boron complexes have unusual properties and may find applications in many fields of chemistry, biology, and physics. To gain insight into their NMR properties, the isotropic 11B, 13C, and 19F NMR chemical shifts of a series of tris(trifluoromethyl)boron complexes were systematically studied using the gauge-included atomic orbitals (GIAO) method at the levels of B3LYP/6-31 + G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-31G* and B3LYP/6-311 + G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-311 + G(d,p). Solvent effects were taken into account by polarizable continuum models (PCM). The calculated results were compared with the experimental values. The reason that the structurally inequivalent fluorine atoms in a specific species give a same chemical shift in experimental measurements is attributed to the fast rotation of CF3 group around the BC(F3) bond because of the low energy barrier. The calculated 11B, 13C(F3), and 19F chemical shifts are in good agreement with the experimental measurements, while the deviations of calculated 13C(X, X = O, N) chemical shifts are slightly large. For the latter, the average absolute deviations of the results from B3LYP/6-311 + G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-311 + G(d,p) are smaller than those from B3LYP/6-31 + G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-31G*, and the inclusion of PCM reduces the deviation values. The calculated 19F and 11B chemical shieldings of (CF3)3BCO are greatly dependent on the optimized structures, while the influence of structural parameters on the calculated 13C chemical shieldings is minor. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]