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Experimental and GIAO 15N NMR study of substituent effects in 1H-tetrazoles
Gopalakrishnan Aridoss1, Chunqing Zhao, Gabriela L Borosky
1Department of Chemistry, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida 32224, USA.
Abstract:
A series of 1-aryl/alkyl-1H-1,2,3,4-tetrazoles, 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles, and 1,5- and 2,5-disubstituted 1H-tetrazoles were studied by a combination of experimental NMR (natural abundance (15)N, (15)N/(1)H HMBC, and (13)C) and computational GIAO-NMR techniques to explore substituent effects on (15)N (and (13)C) NMR chemical shifts in the tetrazole (TA) moiety. Computed (15)N chemical shifts via GIAO-B3LYP/6-311+G(2d,p) calculations gave satisfactory results in comparison with experimental data. Whereas N-alkylation leads to large (15)N chemical shift changes, changes in the N(1)-aryl derivatives bearing diverse substituent(s) are generally small except for polar ortho-substituents (COOH, NO(2)). Large Δδ(15)N values were computed in N(1)-aryl derivatives for p-COH(2)(+) and p-OMeH(+) as extreme examples of electron-withdrawing substituents on a TA moiety.
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