Use of silver trifluoroacetate together with lanthanide shift reagents for simplification of 1H NMR spectra of aromatic hydrocarbons
✍ Scribed by Anna Da̧mbska; Andrzej Janowski
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 323 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0749-1581
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The equimolar mixtures of typical lanthanide shift reagents such as Eu(fod)~3~, Pr(fod)~3~ or Yb(fod)~3~ with silver trifluoroacetate, previously used to induce paramagnetic shifts in the ^1^H NMR spectra of alkenes, have been successfully applied to simple aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes. In benzene and p‐xylene the signals of all the aromatic protons are shifted identically. In other substituted benzenes the magnitude of the induced shift depends on the distance between the proton and the substituents. In addition, the different behaviour of the signals of the methyl groups in meta‐and para‐xylene on the addition of the complex shift reagent allows the quantitative analysis of the two xylenes in their mixtures.