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Anomalous Nuclear Overhauser Effects in Carbon‐Substituted Aziridines: Scalar Cross‐Relaxation of the First Kind
Author(s) -
Kuprov Ilya,
Hodgson David M.,
Kloesges Johannes,
Pearson Christopher I.,
Odell Barbara,
Claridge Timothy D. W.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201410271
Subject(s) - nuclear overhauser effect , scalar (mathematics) , relaxation (psychology) , physics , nuclear magnetic resonance , carbon fibers , quantum electrodynamics , chemistry , mathematics , nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , algorithm , geometry , psychology , social psychology , composite number
Abstract Anomalous NOESY cross‐peaks that cannot be explained by dipolar cross‐relaxation or chemical exchange are described for carbon‐substituted aziridines. The origin of these is identified as scalar cross‐relaxation of the first kind, as demonstrated by a complete theoretical description of this relaxation process and by computational simulation of the NOESY spectra. It is shown that this process relies on the stochastic modulation of J ‐coupling by conformational transitions, which in the case of aziridines arise from inversion at the nitrogen center. The observation of scalar cross‐relaxation between protons does not appear to have been previously reported for NOESY spectra. Conventional analysis would have assigned the cross‐peaks as being indicative of a chemical exchange process occurring between correlated spins, were it not for the fact that the pairs of nuclei displaying them cannot undergo such exchange.