What NMR Can Do for You

• Structure Elucidation of Small Molecules

• Structure identification of synthetic compounds, intermediates, impurities, mixtures, unknowns, regiochemistry, rotamerization

• Quantitative NMR • Chemical exchange: Equilibrium or A(Di)ssociation constants • Reaction monitoring or reaction rates • Diffusion coefficients (DOSY NMR): monomer? dimer? • Enantiomeric purity determination • Absolute stereochemistry determination • Dynamics (T1, T2 and NOE) • Intramolecular hydrogen-bond determination • Parahydrogen-NMR (enhance NMR signals thousands fold) to study

reaction pathways

• NMR Screening (Protein-Ligand Interaction)

• Structure and Dynamics of Macromolecules and

Complexes (e.g., peptides and proteins)

• Metabolites Analysis

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Count the Numbers

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13C-APT

1H Spectrum

Long-Range Connectivity: 1H-13C gHMBC Spectrum

11 18 1 6 24 21

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Relative Stereochemistry: 1D 1H-1H NOE Experiment

This problem can also be

readily solved by 1H-1H

J-coupling constants

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Regioisomer: 1H-19F NOE Experiment

NOE seen between 19F and proton at position 3, but not to the

pyrazole proton, suggesting the 5-position reaction, not 1-

position.

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NOE spectrum

1H spectrum

Regioisomer: 15N Chemical Shifts

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Based on the 15N chemical Shifts and

the connectivity from 1H-15N HMBC spectrum

Variable Temperature Experiments:

Tautomer Identification

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HP

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25°C

qNMR: Determination of %TFA

by an Internal Standard

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qNMR: Determining [sample]

using NMR software

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M=(4 r3 N)/3

DOSY: Determination of MW

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MW=(4r3N)/3

D=kT/6r

Chemical Exchange in NMR:

Intra- and Inter-molecular process

Kassoc = kon/koff

k1

k-1

Keq determined by LW and Dd

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Intra-

Inter-

STD Experiments

Meyer: 2003

U. Ottawa NMR Facility

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Collaborations & Publications Select Publications:

• A Metal-Free Electrocatalyst for Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Multi-Carbon Hydrocarbons and

Oxygenates. NatureComm 2016 (Kenis Group)

• Setting and Nanostructural Evolution of Metakaolin Geopolymers. JACERS 2016 (Struble

Group)

• Experimental evidence for a Co(I)/Co(III) redox process in olefin hydrogenation. JACS 2016

(Fout Group)

• Characterization of Sodium Mobility, Binding, and Apparent Viscosity in Full-Fat and Reduced-

Fat Model Emulsion Systems. JFMC 2016 (Schmidt Group)

• The interplay of Al and Mg speciation in advanced Mg battery electrolytes. JACS, 2015

(Gewirth Group)

• Control of protein orientation on gold nanoparticles. JPC, 2015 (Murphy group)

• Structure, bioactivity, and resistance mechanism of streptomonomicin, an unusual lasso peptide

from an understudied halophilic actnomycete. Chem Biol 2015 (Mitchell Group)

• Synthesis and Characterization of the Platinum-Substituted Keggin Anion α- H2SiPtW11O404-.

Inorg. Chem 2014 (Klemperer)

• Alkyne Mechanochemistry: Putative Activation by Transoidal Bending. RSC ChemComm. 2014

(Moore group)

• NMR structure of the S-linked glycopeptide sublancin 168. ACS Chem Biol. 2014 (van der

Donk group)

• New Reactions of Terminal Hydrides on a Diiron Dithiolate. JACS 2014 (Rauchfuss group)

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