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Effects of Quantum Nuclear Delocalisation on NMR Parameters from Path Integral Molecular Dynamics
Author(s) -
Dračínský Martin,
Hodgkinson Paul
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201303496
Subject(s) - chemical shift , chemistry , electromagnetic shielding , valence (chemistry) , molecular dynamics , molecule , computational chemistry , density functional theory , coupling (piping) , isotope , molecular physics , atomic physics , chemical physics , physics , materials science , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , organic chemistry , metallurgy
The influence of nuclear delocalisation on NMR chemical shifts in molecular organic solids is explored using path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) and density functional theory calculations of shielding tensors. Nuclear quantum effects are shown to explain previously observed systematic deviations in correlations between calculated and experimental chemical shifts, with particularly large PIMD‐induced changes (up to 23 ppm) observed for carbon atoms in methyl groups. The PIMD approach also enables isotope substitution effects on chemical shifts and J couplings to be predicted in excellent agreement with experiment for both isolated molecules and molecular crystals. An approach based on convoluting calculated shielding or coupling surfaces with probability distributions of selected bond distances and valence angles obtained from PIMD simulations is used to calculate isotope effects.