33S NMR spectra of sulfonium salts: calculated and experimental
L Charles Dickinson1, Donald B Chesnut, Louis D Quin
1High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
Abstract:
33S NMR chemical shifts were calculated by the scaled DFT and EMPI approaches for the fluoride, chloride and bromide of trimethylsulfonium ion (1) and S-methyltetrahydrothiophenium ion (2), in addition to the free cations. Experimental values were obtained for the iodides of 1 (delta +48, CS2 = 0 ppm) and 2 (delta +95), and were found to agree with the calculated values well within the standard deviation of 35 ppm (3.5% of the shielding range) established in earlier work for a great variety of sulfur compounds. An earlier literature value of delta +750 for the iodide of 2 is therefore to be replaced. Calculations provide a shift of delta +68 for S-methylthianium ion with equatorial methyl, indicating that the reported value of delta +670 for the iodide is also incorrect.
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