Issue 9, 2013

Selective excitation and detection of maximum quantum coherence of a group of scalar coupled protons in chiral molecules: an NMR experiment for enantiodiscrimination

Abstract

The 1H NMR spectroscopic discrimination of enantiomers in the solution state and the measurement of enantiomeric composition is most often hindered due to either very small chemical shift differences between the discriminated peaks or severe overlap of transitions from other chemically non-equivalent protons. In addition the use of chiral auxiliaries such as, crown ether and chiral lanthanide shift reagent may often cause enormous line broadening or give little degree of discrimination beyond the crown ether substrate ratio, hampering the discrimination. In circumventing such problems we are proposing the utilization of the difference in the additive values of all the chemical shifts of a scalar coupled spin system. The excitation and detection of appropriate highest quantum coherence yields the measurable difference in the frequencies between two transitions, one pertaining to each enantiomer in the maximum quantum dimension permitting their discrimination and the F2 cross section at each of these frequencies yields an enantiopure spectrum. The advantage of the utility of the proposed method is demonstrated on several chiral compounds where the conventional one dimensional 1H NMR spectra fail to differentiate the enantiomers.

Graphical abstract: Selective excitation and detection of maximum quantum coherence of a group of scalar coupled protons in chiral molecules: an NMR experiment for enantiodiscrimination

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Nov 2012
Accepted
13 Dec 2012
First published
17 Dec 2012

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 3071-3078

Selective excitation and detection of maximum quantum coherence of a group of scalar coupled protons in chiral molecules: an NMR experiment for enantiodiscrimination

D. Kumari, S. Hebbar and N. Suryaprakash, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 3071 DOI: 10.1039/C2RA22822J

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