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Published December 1, 1975 | public
Journal Article

Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Charge-Transfer Complexes

Abstract

High-resolution ^(13)C pulse Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance has been used to study the effects of charge-transfer complexation between trinitrobenzene and aromatic donor molecules: benzene, mesitylene, naphthalene, and anthracene. Plots of the chemical shifts of the donor carbons as a function of acceptor concentration allows the ready determination of the association constants, K_(AD), and the bound shifts of the donor carbons in the pure 1:1 complexes, Δ_0. The Δ_0 values so obtained indicate that diamagnetic ring anisotropy and transfer of charge are as phenomenologically important to ^(13)C as to ^1H NMR for aromatic molecules.

Additional Information

© 1975 American Chemical Society. Received March 25, 1975. We are pleased to acknowledge the assistance of Dr. Stefan Berger in writing the computer program, and for stimulating discussions regarding this work. Supported by the National Science Foundation, and by the Public Health Service, Research Grant GM-11072, from the Division of General Medical Sciences; Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, 1973-1974, on sabbatical leave from the Department of Chemistry, University of Utah.

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