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ABSTRACT: The (1)H and (13)C NMR spectra of 17 OHN hydrogen-bonded complexes formed by CH(3)(13)COOH(D) with 14 substituted pyridines, 2 amines, and N-methylimidazole have been measured in the temperature region between 110 and 150 K using CDF(3)/CDF(2)Cl mixture as solvent. The slow proton and hydrogen bond exchange regime was reached, and the H/D isotope effects on the (13)C chemical shifts of the carboxyl group were measured. In combination with the analysis of the corresponding (1)H chemical shifts, it was possible to distinguish between OHN hydrogen bonds exhibiting a single proton position and those exhibiting a fast proton tautomerism between molecular and zwitterionic forms. Using H-bond correlations, we relate the H/D isotope effects on the (13)C chemical shifts of the carboxyl group with the OHN hydrogen bond geometries.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 10/2010; 114(40):10775-82. · 2.95 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: (1)H, (2)H, (19)F and (15)N NMR spectra of a strongly hydrogen-bonded anionic cluster, CNHF(-), as an ion pair with a tetrabutylammonium cation dissolved in CDF(3)-CDF(2)Cl mixture were recorded in the slow exchange regime at temperatures down to 110 K. The fine structure due to spin-spin coupling of all nuclei involved in the hydrogen bridge was resolved. H/D isotope effects on the chemical shifts were measured. The results were compared with those obtained earlier for a similar anion, FHF(-), and interpreted via ab initio calculations of magnetic shielding as functions of internal vibrational coordinates, namely an anti-symmetric proton stretching and a doubly-degenerate bending. The values of primary and secondary isotope effects on NMR chemical shifts were estimated using a power expansion of the shielding surface as a function of vibrational coordinates. A positive primary isotope effect was explained as a result of the decrease of the hydron stretching amplitude upon deuteration. We show that the proton shielding surface has a minimum close to the equilibrium geometry of the CNHF(-) anion, leading to the positive primary H/D isotope effect in a rather asymmetric hydrogen bond. We conclude that caution should be used when making geometric estimations on the basis of NMR data, since the shapes of the shielding functions of the internal vibrational coordinates can be rather exclusive for each complex.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 08/2009; 11(25):5154-9. · 3.57 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: In this paper, equations are proposed which relate various NMR parameters of OHN hydrogen-bonded pyridine-acid complexes to their bond valences which are in turn correlated with their hydrogen-bond geometries. As the valence bond model is strictly valid only for weak hydrogen bonds appropriate empirical correction factors are proposed which take into account anharmonic zero-point energy vibrations. The correction factors are different for OHN and ODN hydrogen bonds and depend on whether a double or a single well potential is realized in the strong hydrogen-bond regime. One correction factor was determined from the known experimental structure of a very strong OHN hydrogen bond between pentachlorophenol and 4-methylpyridine, determined by the neutron diffraction method. The remaining correction factors which allow one also to describe H/D isotope effects on the NMR parameters and geometries of OHN hydrogen bond were determined by analysing the NMR parameters of the series of protonated and deuterated pyridine- and collidine-acid complexes. The method may be used in the future to establish hydrogen-bond geometries in biologically relevant functional OHN hydrogen bonds.
Chemistry 11/2004; 10(20):5195-204. · 5.93 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: 1H, (2)H, and (13)C NMR spectra of enriched CH(3)(13)COOH acid without and in the presence of tetra-n-butylammonium acetate have been measured around 110 K using a liquefied Freon mixture CDF(3)/CDF(2)Cl as a solvent, as a function of the deuterium fraction in the mobile proton sites. For comparison, spectra were also taken of the adduct CH(3)(13)COOH.SbCl(5) 1 and of CH(2)Cl(13)COOH under similar conditions, as well as of CH(3)(13)COOH and CH(3)(13)COO(-) dissolved in H(2)O and D(2)O at low and high pH at 298 K. The low temperatures employed allowed us to detect several well-known and novel hydrogen-bonded complexes in the slow hydrogen bond exchange regime and to determine chemical shifts and coupling constants as well as H/D isotope effects on chemical shifts from the fine structure of the corresponding signals. The measurements show that self-association of both carboxylic acids in Freon solution gives rise exclusively to the formation of cyclic dimers 2 and 3 exhibiting a rapid degenerate double proton transfer. For the first time, a two-bond coupling of the type (2)J(CH(3)COOH) between a hydrogen-bonded proton and the carboxylic carbon has been observed, which is slightly smaller than half of the value observed for 1. In addition, the (1)H and (2)H chemical shifts of the HH, HD, and the DD isotopologues of 2 and 3 have been determined as well as the corresponding HH/HD/DD isotope effects on the (13)C chemical shifts. Similar "primary", "vicinal", and "secondary" isotope effects were observed for the novel 2:1 complex "dihydrogen triacetate" 5 between acetic acid and acetate. Another novel species is the 3:1 complex "trihydrogen tetraacetate" 6, which was also characterized by a complex degenerate combined hydrogen bond- and proton-transfer process. For comparison, the results obtained previously for hydrogen diacetate 4 and hydrogen maleate 7 are discussed. Using an improved (1)H chemical shift-hydrogen bond geometry correlation, the chemical shift data are converted into hydrogen bond geometries. They indicate cooperative hydrogen bonds in the cyclic dimers; i.e., widening of a given hydrogen bond by H/D substitution also widens the other coupled hydrogen bond. By contrast, the hydrogen bonds in 5 are anticooperative. The measurements show that ionization shifts the (13)C signal of the carboxyl group to low field when the group is immersed in water, but to high field when it is embedded in a polar aprotic environment. This finding allows us to understand the unusual ionization shift of aspartate groups in the HIV-pepstatin complex observed by Smith, R.; Brereton, I. M.; Chai, R. Y.; Kent, S. B. H. Nature Struct. Biol. 1996, 3, 946. It is demonstrated that the Freon solvents used in this study are better environments for model studies of amino acid interactions than aqueous or protic environments. Finally, a novel correlation of the hydrogen bond geometries with the H/D isotope effects on the (13)C chemical shifts of carboxylic acid groups is proposed, which allows one to estimate the hydrogen bond geometries and protonation states of these groups. It is shown that absence of such an isotope effect is not only compatible with an isolated carboxylate group but also with the presence of a short and strong hydrogen bond.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 06/2004; 126(17):5621-34. · 9.91 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The low-temperature (1)H, (19)F, and (15)N NMR spectra of mixtures of collidine-(15)N (2,4,6-trimethylpyridine-(15)N, Col) with HF have been measured using CDF(3)/CDF(2)Cl as a solvent in the temperature range 94-170 K. Below 140 K, the slow proton and hydrogen bond exchange regime is reached where four hydrogen-bonded complexes between collidine and HF with the compositions 1:1, 2:3, 1:2, and 1:3 could be observed and assigned. For these complexes, chemical shifts and scalar coupling constants across the (19)F(1)H(19)F and (19)F(1)H(15)N hydrogen bridges have been measured which allowed us to determine the chemical composition of the complexes. The simplest complex, collidine hydrofluoride ColHF, is characterized at low temperatures by a structure intermediate between a molecular and a zwitterionic complex. Its NMR parameters depend strongly on temperature and the polarity of the solvent. The 2:3 complex [ColHFHCol](+)[FHF](-) is a contact ion pair. Collidinium hydrogen difluoride [ColH](+)[FHF](-) is an ionic salt exhibiting a strong hydrogen bond between collidinium and the [FHF](-) anion. In this complex, the anion [FHF](-) is subject to a fast reorientation rendering both fluorine atoms equivalent in the NMR time scale with an activation energy of about 5 kcal mol(-)(1) for the reorientation. Finally, collidinium dihydrogen trifluoride [ColH](+)[F(HF)(2)](-) is an ionic pair exhibiting one FHN and two FHF hydrogen bonds. Together with the [F(HF)(n)()](-) clusters studied previously (Shenderovich et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2002, 4, 5488), the new complexes represent an interesting model system where the evolution of scalar couplings between the heavy atoms and between the proton and the heavy atoms of hydrogen bonds can be studied. As in the related FHF case, we observe also for the FHN case a sign change of the coupling constant (1)J(FH) when the F.H distance is increased and the proton shifted to nitrogen. When the sign change occurs, that is, (1)J(FH) = 0, the heavy atom coupling constant (2)J(FN) remains very large, of the order of 95 Hz. Using the valence bond order model and hydrogen bond correlations, we describe the dependence of the hydrogen bond coupling constants, of hydrogen bond chemical shifts, and of some H/D isotope effects on the latter as a function of the hydrogen bond geometries.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 10/2003; 125(38):11710-20. · 9.91 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Liquid state 1H and 19F NMR experiments in the temperature range between 110 and 150 K have been performed on mixtures of tetrabutylammonium fluoride with HF dissolved in a 1:2 mixture of CDF3 and CDF2Cl. Under these conditions hydrogen bonded complexes between F− and a varying number of HF molecules were observed in the slow proton and hydrogen bond exchange regime. At low HF concentrations the well known hydrogen bifluoride ion [FHF]− is observed, exhibiting a strong symmetric H-bond. At higher HF concentrations the species [F(HF)2]−, [F(HF)3]− are formed and a species to which we assign the structure [F(HF)4]−. The spectra indicate a central fluoride anion which forms multiple hydrogen bonds to HF. With increasing number of HF units the hydrogen bond protons shift towards the terminal fluorine's. The optimized gas-phase geometries of [F(HF)n]−, n = 1 to 4, calculated using ab initio methods confirm the D∞h, C2v, D3h and Td symmetries of these ions. For the first time, both one-bond couplings between a hydrogen bond proton and the two heavy atoms of a hydrogen bridge, here 1JHF and 1JHF where |1JHF|≥|1JHF'|, as well as a two-bond coupling between the heavy atoms, here 2JFF, have been observed. The analysis of the differential width of various multiplet components gives evidence for the signs of these constants, i.e. 1JHF and 2JSF>0, and 1JHF|. <0. Ab initio calculations of NMR chemical shifts and the scalar coupling constants using the Density Functional formalism and the Multi-configuration Complete Active Space method show a reasonable agreement with the experimental parameters and confirm the covalent character of the hydrogen bonds studied.
Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie. 02/1998; 102(3):422 - 428.
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ABSTRACT: In this paper we describe H/D isotope effects on the chemical shifts of intermolecular hydrogen-bonded complexes exhibiting low barriers for proton transfer, as a function of the position of the hydrogen bond proton. For this purpose, low-temperature (100−150 K) 1H, 2H, and 15N NMR experiments were performed on solutions of various protonated and deuterated acids AL (L = H, D) and pyridine-15N (B) dissolved in a 2:1 mixture of CDClF2/CDF3. In this temperature range, the regime of slow proton and hydrogen bond exchange is reached, leading to resolved NMR lines for each hydrogen-bonded species as well as for different isotopic modifications. The experiments reveal the formation of 1:1, 2:1, and 3:1 complexes between AH(D) and B. The heteronuclear scalar 1H−15N coupling constants between the hydrogen bond proton and the 15N nucleus of pyridine show that the proton is gradually shifted from the acid to pyridine-15N when the proton-donating power of the acid is increased. H/D isotope effects on the chemical shifts of the hydrogen-bonded hydrons (proton and deuteron) as well as on the 15N nuclei involved in the hydrogen bonds were measured for 1:1 and 2:1 complexes. A qualitative explanation concerning the origin of these low-barrier hydrogen bond isotope effects is proposed, from which interesting information concerning the hydron and heavy atom locations in single and coupled low-barrier hydrogen bonds can be derived. Several implications concerning the role of low-barrier hydrogen bonds in enzyme reactions are discussed.
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ABSTRACT: The structure of the hydrogen bridge 19 ´´5 N in the acid ± base complex ´´ B formed by HF and [ 15 N]2,4,6-trimethylpyridine in CDF 3 / CDF 2 Cl has been studied between 112 K and 200 K by low-temperature, multinuclear NMR spectroscopy. For the first time scalar spin ± spin coupling between all three nuclei of a hydrogen bridge is observed. This bridge exhibits a two-bond coupling constant 2 J19 F 15 N of about 96 Hz, which is larger than the one-bond coupling constants 1 J1 H 15 N and 1 J19 F 1 H . The latter are strongly dependent on temperature. The function 1 J1 H 15 N f(1 J19 F 1 H) cannot be described in terms of a conventional equilibrium between the molecular and the zwitterionic form, but only with the intermediate forma-tion of very strongly hydrogen-bonded complexes of the type A d´´ B d that exhibit a vanishing or very small barrier for the proton motion. Here, the difference between the covalent bond and the hydrogen bond disappears even in the case of a polar solvents, as indicated by the large value of 2 J19 F 15 N . Implications for the mechanism of pro-ton transfer and of acid ± base catalyzed enzyme reactions in a locally aprotic but polar environment are discussed.
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ABSTRACT: 1H and 15N NMR spectra of 10 complexes exhibiting strong OHN hydrogen bonds formed by 15N-labeled collidine and different proton donors, partially deuterated in mobile proton sites, have been observed by low-temperature NMR spectroscopy using a low-freezing CDF3/CDF2Cl mixture as polar aprotic solvent. The following proton donors have been used: HCl, formic acid, acetic acid, various substituted benzoic acids and HBF4. The slow hydrogen bond exchange regime could be reached below 140 K, which allowed us to resolve 15N signal splittings due to H/D isotopic substitution. The valence bond order model is used to link the observed NMR parameters to hydrogen bond geometries. The results are compared to those obtained previously [Magn. Reson. Chem. 39 (2001) S18] for the same complexes in the organic solids. The increase of the dielectric constant from the organic solids to the solution (30 at 130 K) leads to a change of the hydrogen bond geometries along the geometric correlation line towards the zwitterionic structures, where the proton is partially transferred from oxygen to nitrogen. Whereas the changes of spectroscopic and, hence, geometric parameters are small for the systems which are already zwitterionic in the solid state, large changes are observed for molecular complexes which exhibit almost a full proton transfer from oxygen to nitrogen in the polar liquid solvent.
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ABSTRACT: Using low-temperature NMR (1H, 19F) technique in the slow exchange regime, the solutions containing tetrabutylammonium (TBA) acetate and HF have been studied in an aprotic freon mixture, CDF3/CDF2Cl, exhibiting a dielectric permittivity, which increases strongly by lowering the temperature. Two different hydrogen bonded anionic clusters, a 1:1 cluster of the type AcOδ−⋯H⋯F−1+δ+ ([AcOHF]−) and a 2:1 cluster of the type AcOH⋯F−⋯HOAc ([(AcOH)2F]−) have been detected in equilibrium with each other, both forming ion pairs with the TBA countercation. [AcOHF]− exhibits an extremely strong hydrogen bond, with a proton shared between partially negatively charged oxygen and fluorine atoms. The NMR chemical shifts and scalar spin–spin coupling constants, 1J(FH), have been measured in the temperature range between 110 and 160 K, where separate NMR signals are observed for both species. In addition, H/D isotope effects on the 19F NMR chemical shielding have been measured for both clusters.In contrast to the related complexes [(FH)nF]− (n=1–4) studied previously, the NMR parameters of [AcOHF]− and of [(AcOH)2F]− depend strongly on temperature. This effect is associated with the increasing polarity of the solvent with decreasing temperatures, established earlier, which displaces the proton from fluorine to oxygen. As a motive power of this conversion, preferential solvation of the compact fluoride ion as compared to acetate is proposed.
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ABSTRACT: As a model system for the internal and external aldimines of the coenzyme pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) in PLP dependent enzymes we have studied the 1H and 15N NMR spectra of the 15N labeled Schiff base 3-carboxy-5-methyl-salicylidenaniline (1) dissolved in CD2Cl2. 1 contains a charge relay system with two strongly coupled intramolecular hydrogen bonds of the OHOHN type. One-bond 15N1H scalar spin–spin coupling constants and chemical shifts of partially deuterated 1 were measured in the temperature range between 243 and 183 K and analyzed assuming an exchange between three tautomeric states exhibiting well defined hydrogen bond geometries. The analysis shows that the dominant structure 1b corresponds to the zwitterion OH⋯O−⋯HN+, where deuteration of one bond leads to a shortening of the other. This anti-cooperative effect is revealed by the vicinal isotope effects on the proton chemical shifts. By contrast, forms 1a and 1c are characterized by the structures OH⋯OH⋯N and O−⋯HO⋯HN+, correspondingly, whose hydrogen bonds exhibit a cooperative coupling. We predict that 1a will dominate at high temperatures and low dielectric constants, whereas 1c will dominate at low temperatures and large dielectric constants. The comparison with model systems which do not contain the additional COOH-group indicates that the latter is responsible for the dominance of the zwitterionic structure of the OHN hydrogen bond. The implications of these findings for the function of the coenzyme pyridoxal phosphate in its natural environment are discussed.
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