Shoolery and his colleagues taught chemists how to use NMR to determine molecular structure. Varian Associates first forays into NMR instrumentation yielded mixed results. At first, the company funded development of NMR spectrometers by making its inch electromagnet available commercially. The initial Varian instrument was the HR, which used the inch electromagnet, but it was difficult to operate. Later, more advanced instruments were marketed, such as the HR and the HR The latter instrument could solve a larger range of problems than earlier versions, and it was a small-scale commercial success.
But its mammoth size and high cost put it out of the reach of most chemists. Research on such an instrument began in earnest in The new instrument would have a six-inch magnet, small enough so that the entire instrument would fit into two secretary-sized consoles, one for the magnet and most of the electronics, the other for the controls and the remaining electronic gear.
The intent was to manufacture a machine simple enough for an organic chemist to use and cheap enough for the researcher to afford. The A, which plotted the results, spectra, on calibrated chart paper, quickly became popular among chemists because of its affordability, reliability, stability, compact construction, and ease of operation. The A was the workhorse NMR instrument for decades as it allowed chemists to determine molecular structures easily and quickly and to follow the progress of chemical reactions.
Researchers employed the A in applications of special interest to the public such as prospecting for water, oil, and minerals. But the most widely known application came in the medical field with the development of magnetic resonance imaging MRI.
Lauterbur was the first to demonstrate magnetic resonance imaging; Mansfield soon improved the resolution and speed of MRI images. After receiving a B. At the same time he was pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh, but before he could complete work towards the degree and a planned study on NMR spectroscopy of silicon compounds, he was drafted into the Army. After basic training, Lauterbur was assigned to the Army Chemical Center, where he learned the Army had purchased an NMR, which apparently no one knew how to use.
Lauterbur published four papers based on his work on NMR in the Army. This work provided the basis for his Ph. One of those areas was the use of computers to acquire and process NMR information, and the other was the application of NMR information to biological studies.
Instead, Lauterbur wondered: Might there be a way to know the water proton NMR relaxation time constants of tissues without having to take them out of the body, to determine exactly where an NMR signal originates in a complex object such as a living organism?
In other words, was there a way to get spatial information out of NMR signals in vivo? Examples of coupling patterns showing coupling constants. The above patterns are a first order approximation and are correct provided that all the coupled spins have widely separated chemical shifts. The different nuclei are labeled with the letters A and X in a system of this type the letters come from widely separated parts of the alphabet.
If the chemical shifts are similar then distortions in peak height occur as in the diagram below the letters are also close together in the alphabet. For more than two spins, extra signals may appear. These effects are called second order coupling fig. Some examples are shown here and a detailed analysis of second order coupling is available in the literature. Returning to the example of ethylbenzene fig. The first order approximation works because the groups are widely separated in the spectrum.
The aromatic signals are close together and display second order effects. The ortho signal is a doublet AX while the meta and para signals are triplets. The cost of these machines is roughly proportional to the square of the frequency, and one well may wonder why there is such an exotic variety available and what this has to do with the chemical shift.
High operating frequencies are desirable because chemical shifts increase with spectrometer frequency, and this makes the spectra simpler to interpret. Typical proton chemical shifts relative to TMS are given in Table This is not unreasonable, because the chemical shift of a given proton is expected to depend somewhat on the nature of the particular molecule involved, and also on the solvent, temperature, and concentration.
Protonc chemical shifts are very valuable for the determination of structures, but to use the shifts in this way we must know something about the correlations that exist between chemical shift and structural environment of protons in organic compounds. The most important effects arise from differences in electronegativity, types of carbon bonding, hydrogen bonding, and chemical exchange.
The degree of shielding of the proton by the carbon valence electrons depends on the character of the substituent atoms and groups present, and particularly on their electron-attracting power, or electronegativity. This means that alkenic hydrogens in an organic compound can be easily distinguished from alkane hydrogens. Clearly, the shifts of a proton depend on whether the carbon forms single, double, or triple bonds. Apparently, protons attached to double-bonded carbons are in the deshielding zones and thus are downfield while protons attached to triple-bonded carbons are in the shielding zones and are observed at rather high field.
When a proton is directly bonded to a strongly electronegative atom such as oxygen or nitrogen its chemical shift is critically dependent on the nature of the solvent, temperature, concentration, and whether acidic or basic impurities are present. In general, hydrogen bonding results in deshielding , which causes the resonances to move downfield. The extent of hydrogen bonding varies with concentration, temperature, and solvent, and changes in the degree of hydrogen bonding can cause substantial shift changes.
The hydroxyl resonance will be seen to move upfield by hydrogen bonding through equilibria such as. Autoprotolysis equilibria can exchange the protons between the molecules and also from one end to the other as shown below, even if the equilibria are not very favorable. Such equilibria can be established very rapidly, especially if traces of a strong acid or a strong base are present.
This is the same kind of chemical shift averaging that occurs for rapidly equilibrating conformations see Section C. To see how nmr and infrared spectra can be used together for structure determination we shall work through a representative example. The position of the carbonyl band suggests that it is probably an ester,.
The nmr spectrum shows three kinds of signals corresponding to three kinds of protons. The integral shows these are in the ratio of The agreement between the calculated and observed shifts is not perfect, but is within the usual range of variation for Equation We can be satisfied that the assigned structure is correct.
Why do certain proton resonances appear as groups of equally spaced lines rather than single resonances? This multiplicity of lines produced by the mutual interaction of magnetic nuclei is called " spin-spin splitting ", and while it complicates nmr spectra, it also provides valuable structural information, as we shall see. An example of a complex proton spectrum is that of ethyl iodide Figure To a first approximation, the two main groups of lines appear as equally spaced sets of three and four lines, arising from what are called "first-order spin-spin interactions".
Matters are further complicated by additional splitting of the "three-four" pattern of ethyl iodide, as also can be seen in Figure This additional splitting is called "second-order" splitting.
When there are so many lines present, how do we know what we are dealing with? From where to we measure the chemical shift in a complex group of lines? First, the chemical shift normally is at the center of the group of lines corresponding to first-order splitting. In ethyl iodide, the chemical shift of the methyl protons is in the center of the quartet:.
In contrast, the first-order spin-spin splittings remain the same. Third, the second-order splitting tends to disappear with increasing transmitter frequency.
The next question is how can we understand and predict what spin-spin splitting patterns will be observed? And how do they give us structural information?
The ratios of the line intensities in the spin-spin splitting patterns of Figure usually follow simple rules. A doublet appears as two lines of equal intensity; a triplet as three lines in the ratio ; a quartet as four lines in the ratio ; a quintet as , and so on.
The symmetrical doublet and quartet are typical of the interaction between a single proton and an adjacent group of three, that is,. In general, the magnitude of the spin-spin splitting effect of one proton on another proton or group of equivalent protons depends on the number and kind of intervening chemical bonds and on the spatial relationships between the groups. For simple systems without double bonds and with normal bond angles, we usually find for nonequivalent protons i.
Where restricted rotation or double- and triple-bonded groups are involved, widely divergent splittings are observed. Coupling through four or more bonds is significant for compounds with double or triple bonds. Examples of these so-called long-range couplings and some other useful splitting values follow:. Finally, chemically equivalent protons do not split each other's resonances.
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