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Li Z, Xu B, Kojasoy V, Ortega T, Adpressa DA, Ning W, Wei X, Liu J, Tantillo DJ, Loesgen S, Rudolf JD. First trans-eunicellane terpene synthase in bacteria. Chem 2023; 9:698-708. [PMID: 36937101 PMCID: PMC10022577 DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2022.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Terpenoids are the largest family of natural products, but prokaryotes are vastly underrepresented in this chemical space. However, genomics supports vast untapped biosynthetic potential for terpenoids in bacteria. We discovered the first trans-eunicellane terpene synthase (TS), AlbS from Streptomyces albireticuli NRRL B-1670, in nature. Mutagenesis, deuterium labeling studies, and quantum chemical calculations provided extensive support for its cyclization mechanism. In addition, parallel stereospecific labeling studies with Bnd4, a cis-eunicellane TS, revealed a key mechanistic distinction between these two enzymes. AlbS highlights bacteria as a valuable source of novel terpenoids, expands our understanding of the eunicellane family of natural products and the enzymes that biosynthesize them, and provides a model system to address fundamental questions about the chemistry of 6,10-bicyclic ring systems.
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- Zining Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California–Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California–Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California–Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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Zhu C, Xu B, Adpressa DA, Rudolf JD, Loesgen S. Discovery and Biosynthesis of a Structurally Dynamic Antibacterial Diterpenoid. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:14163-14170. [PMID: 33780586 PMCID: PMC9247737 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202102453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A new bicyclic diterpenoid, benditerpenoic acid, was isolated from soil-dwelling Streptomyces sp. (CL12-4). We sequenced the bacterial genome, identified the responsible biosynthetic gene cluster, verified the function of the terpene synthase, and heterologously produced the core diterpene. Comparative bioinformatics indicated this Streptomyces strain is phylogenetically unique and possesses nine terpene synthases. The absolute configurations of the new trans-fused bicyclo[8.4.0]tetradecanes were achieved by extensive spectroscopic analyses, including Mosher's analysis, J-based coupling analysis, and computations based on sparse NMR-derived experimental restraints. Interestingly, benditerpenoic acid exists in two distinct ring-flipped bicyclic conformations with a rotational barrier of ≈16 kcal mol-1 in solution. The diterpenes exhibit moderate antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria including methicillin and multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus. This is a rare example of an eunicellane-type diterpenoid from bacteria and the first identification of a diterpene synthase and biosynthetic gene cluster responsible for the construction of the eunicellane scaffold.
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- Chenxi Zhu
- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida 32080, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA
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- Department of Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc. Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida 32080, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA
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Entdeckung und Biosynthese eines strukturdynamischen antibakteriellen Diterpenoids. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202102453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Dal Poggetto G, Soares JV, Tormena CF. Selective Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments for Sign-Sensitive Determination of Heteronuclear Couplings: Expanding the Analysis of Crude Reaction Mixtures. Anal Chem 2020; 92:14047-14053. [PMID: 32924438 PMCID: PMC7660590 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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State-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) selective experiments are capable of directly analyzing crude reaction mixtures. A new experiment named HD-HAPPY-FESTA yields ultrahigh-resolution total correlation subspectra, which are suitable for sign-sensitive determination of heteronuclear couplings, as demonstrated here by measuring the sign and magnitude for proton-fluorine couplings (JHF) from major and minor isomer products of a two-step reaction without any purification. Proton-fluorine couplings ranging from 51.5 to -2.6 Hz could be measured using HD-HAPPY-FESTA, with the smallest measured magnitude of 0.8 Hz. Experimental JHF values were used to identify the two fluoroketone intermediates and the four fluoroalcohol products. Results were rationalized and compared with the density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Experimental data were further compared with the couplings reported in the literature, where pure samples were analyzed.
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- Guilherme Dal Poggetto
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), PO BOX 6154, Campinas, São Paulo CEP 13083-970, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), PO BOX 6154, Campinas, São Paulo CEP 13083-970, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), PO BOX 6154, Campinas, São Paulo CEP 13083-970, Brazil
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Saurí J, Nolis P, Parella T. How to measure long-range proton-carbon coupling constants from 1 H-selective HSQMBC experiments. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2020; 58:363-375. [PMID: 32239575 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Heteronuclear long-range scalar coupling constants (n JCH ) are a valuable tool for solving problems in organic chemistry and are especially suited for stereochemical and configurational analyses of small molecules and natural products. This tutorial will focus on the step-by-step implementation of several 2D 1 H frequency selective HSQMBC experiments for the easy and accurate measurement of either the magnitude or both the magnitude and the sign of long-range n JCH couplings. The performance of these experiments will be showcased with several scenarios in a range of different experimental conditions.
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- Josep Saurí
- Structure Elucidation Group, Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Boston, MA
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Bertin MJ, Saurí J, Liu Y, Via CW, Roduit AF, Williamson RT. Trichophycins B-F, Chlorovinylidene-Containing Polyketides Isolated from a Cyanobacterial Bloom. J Org Chem 2018; 83:13256-13266. [PMID: 30280904 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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NMR-guided isolation (based on 1D 1H and 13C NMR resonances consistent with a chlorovinylidene moiety) resulted in the characterization of five new highly functionalized polyketides, trichophycins B-F (1-5), and one nonchlorinated metabolite tricholactone (6) from a collection of Trichodesmium bloom material from the Gulf of Mexico. The planar structures of 1-6 were determined using 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and complementary spectroscopic procedures. Absolute configuration analysis of 1 and 2 were carried out by 1H NMR analysis of diastereomeric Mosher esters in addition to ECD spectroscopy, J-based configuration analysis, and DFT calculations. The absolute configurations of 3-6 were proposed on the basis of comparative analysis of 13C NMR chemical shifts, relative configurations, and optical rotation values to compounds 1 and 2. Compounds 1-5 represent new additions to the trichophycin family and are hallmarked by a chlorovinylidene moiety. These new trichophycins and tricholactone (1-6) feature intriguing variations with respect to putative biosynthetic starting units, halogenation, and terminations, and trichophycin E (4) features a rare alkynyl bromide functionality. The phenyl-containing trichophycins showed low cytotoxicity to neuro-2A cells, while the alkyne-containing trichophycins showed no toxicity.
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- Matthew J Bertin
- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy , University of Rhode Island , 7 Greenhouse Road , Kingston , Rhode Island 02881 , United States
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development , Merck and Co. Inc , 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development , Merck and Co. Inc , 126 East Lincoln Avenue , Rahway , New Jersey 07065 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy , University of Rhode Island , 7 Greenhouse Road , Kingston , Rhode Island 02881 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy , University of Rhode Island , 7 Greenhouse Road , Kingston , Rhode Island 02881 , United States
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- Structure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development , Merck and Co. Inc , 126 East Lincoln Avenue , Rahway , New Jersey 07065 , United States
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Bigler P, Furrer J. Measurement of long-range heteronuclear coupling constants using the peak intensity in classical 1D HMBC spectra. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2018; 56:329-337. [PMID: 29336081 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Revised: 01/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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In this contribution, we show that the magnitude of heteronuclear long-range coupling constants can be directly extracted from the classical 1D HMBC spectra, as all multiplet lines of a cross-peak always and exclusively vanish for the condition Δ = k/n JCH . To the best of our knowledge, this feature of the classical HMBC has not yet been noticed and exploited. This condition holds true, irrespective of the magnitude and numbers of additional active and passive homonuclear n JHH' couplings. Alternatively, the n JCH value may also be evaluated by fitting the peak's intensity in the individual spectra to its simple sin(πn JCH Δ)exp(-Δ/T2eff ) dependence. Compared to the previously proposed J-HMBC sequences that also use the variation of the cross-peak's intensity for extracting the coupling constants, the classical HMBC pulse sequence is significantly more sensitive.
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- Peter Bigler
- Departement für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bern, Freiestrasse 3, Berne, CH-3012, Switzerland
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- Departement für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bern, Freiestrasse 3, Berne, CH-3012, Switzerland
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Souza AA, Gil RR, Parella T. Highly resolved HSQC experiments for the fast and accurate measurement of homonuclear and heteronuclear coupling constants. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2017; 282:54-61. [PMID: 28759743 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2017] [Revised: 07/10/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A number of J-upscaled NMR experiments are currently available to measure coupling constants along the indirect F1 dimension of a 2D spectrum. A major drawback is the limited F1 digital resolution that requires long acquisition times in order to achieve reasonably accurate measures. Here is shown how high levels of F1 digital resolution in a multiple-purpose HSQC experiment can be easily achieved by implementing a general J/δ-scaling strategy. In particular, a set of new J-resolved HSQC experiments is presented for a faster and much more accurate J determination in small molecules. Several options and practical aspects are discussed and exemplified by measuring the magnitude and/or the sign of several homo- and heteronuclear coupling constants in one shot.
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- Alexandre A Souza
- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain; Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal do Piauí, 64049-550 Teresina, PI, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain.
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Dickson CL, Blundell CD, Butts CP, Felton A, Jeffreys A, Takacs Z. Accurate measurement of long range proton–carbon scalar coupling constants. Analyst 2017; 142:621-633. [DOI: 10.1039/c6an02298g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The accuracy and ease-of-use of various experimental NMR methods for measuringnJCHvalues is assessed.
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- University of Bristol
- School of Chemistry
- Bristol
- UK
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Koskela H, Kilpeläinen I, Heikkinen S. ME-CAGEBIRD r,X-CPMG-HSQMBC. A phase sensitive, multiplicity edited long range HSQC with absorptive line shapes. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2016; 272:114-122. [PMID: 27689530 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2016.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 09/15/2016] [Accepted: 09/15/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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ME-CAGEBIRDr,X-CPMG-HSMBC pulse sequence is a phase sensitive, carbon multiplicity edited 2D-experiment for detecting heteronuclear correlations originating from long-range 1H, 13C-couplings, nJCH. The presented method allows measurement of nJCH-values as well as is capable of separating different carbon types in subspectra (13C/13CH2 and 13CH/13CH3) with minimal amount of cross talk i.e. cross peaks from wrong carbon multiplicity. Pure lineshapes and clean subspectra are achieved by utilizing CPMG in polarization transfer period, CRISIS-approach in multiplicity editing period and zero-quantum filtration. The obtained spectral properties together with simple setup of the experiment make ME-CAGEBIRDr,X-CPMG-HSMBC a useful addition into synthetic organic chemistry oriented NMR-tool collection.
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- Harri Koskela
- VERIFIN, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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Saurí J, Frédérich M, Tchinda AT, Parella T, Williamson RT, Martin GE. Carbon Multiplicity Editing in Long-Range Heteronuclear Correlation NMR Experiments: A Valuable Tool for the Structure Elucidation of Natural Products. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2015; 78:2236-2241. [PMID: 26305494 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b00447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A recently developed NMR method to simultaneously obtain both long-range heteronuclear correlations and carbon multiplicity information in a single experiment, ME-selHSQMBC, is demonstrated as a potentially useful technique for chemical shift assignment and structure elucidation of natural products presenting complicated NMR spectra. Carbon multiplicities, even for C/CH2 and odd for CH/CH3 resonances, can be distinguished directly from the relative positive/negative phase of cross-peaks. In addition, connectivity networks can be further extended by incorporating a TOCSY propagation step. Staurosporine (1) and sungucine (2) are utilized as model compounds to demonstrate these techniques.
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- Josep Saurí
- NMR Structure Elucidation, Process and Analytical Chemistry, Merck & Co. Inc. , Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Department of Pharmacy, CIRM, University of Liège , B36, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Center for Studies on Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine, Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies (IMPM) , P.O. Box 6163, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- NMR Structure Elucidation, Process and Analytical Chemistry, Merck & Co. Inc. , Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- NMR Structure Elucidation, Process and Analytical Chemistry, Merck & Co. Inc. , Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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Font M, Acuña-Parés F, Parella T, Serra J, Luis JM, Lloret-Fillol J, Costas M, Ribas X. Direct observation of two-electron Ag(I)/Ag(III) redox cycles in coupling catalysis. Nat Commun 2014; 5:4373. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2014] [Accepted: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Parella T, Espinosa JF. Long-range proton-carbon coupling constants: NMR methods and applications. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2013; 73:17-55. [PMID: 23962883 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2013.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2013] [Revised: 07/03/2013] [Accepted: 07/03/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A general review of novel NMR methods to measure heteronuclear long-range proton-carbon coupling constants ((n)JCH; n>1) in small molecules is made. NMR experiments are classified in terms of NMR pulse scheme and cross-peak nature. A discussion about simplicity, general applicability and accuracy for each particular NMR experiment is presented and exemplified. Important aspects such as the sign determination and measurement of very small coupling values involving protonated and non-protonated carbons as well as the complementarity between different experiments are also discussed. Finally, a compilation of applications in structural and conformational analysis of different types of molecules since 2000 is surveyed.
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- Teodor Parella
- Servei de Ressonància Magnètica Nuclear, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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