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Coulomb Explosion Imaging as a Tool to Distinguish Between Stereoisomers
Published on: August 18, 2017
Selective HOESY experiments for stereochemical determinations
Mehdi Yemloul1, Sabine Bouguet-Bonnet, Lalla Aïcha Ba
1Méthodologie RMN (UMR CNRS-UHP 7565), Nancy-Université, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, B.P. 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (cedex), France.
Abstract:
Heteronuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (HOESY) is a powerful method for tracking geometrical proximities between two heteronuclei (for instance, (1)H and (13)C, as this will be the case here). The method is based on cross-relaxation arising from dipolar interactions. Sensitivity permitting, it is applied in the 2D mode yielding all spatial correlations in a single experiment. Whenever sensitivity is not sufficient, it can be applied in the one-dimensional mode by selectively inverting one particular proton. In that case, it yields, from the carbon-13 spectrum, remote spatial correlations. The method has been employed here for the discrimination between two possible E or Z isomers in a medium-size molecule.
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