Investigation of structure and motional behavior of 1,6:3,4-dianhydro-2-O-tosyl-β-d-galactopyranose in solution by means of multiple-field NMR spectroscopy

Structure-activity study of thiazides by magnetic resonance methods (NQR, NMR, EPR) and DFT calculations

The paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the electronic structure of thiazides and their biological activity. The compounds of interest were studied in solid state by the resonance methods nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and quantum chemistry (ab inito and DFT) methods. Detailed parallel analysis of the spectroscopic parameters such as quadrupole coupling constant (QCC) NQR chemical shift (delta), chemical shift anisotropy (CSA), asymmetry parameter (eta), NMR and hyperfine coupling constant (A), EPR was performed and the electronic effects (polarisation and delocalisation) were revealed and compared. Biological activity of thiazides has been found to depend on many factors, but mainly on the physico-chemical properties whose assessment was possible on the basis of electron density determination in the molecules performed by experimental and theoretical methods.

Computational studies of 13C NMR chemical shifts of saccharides

The (13)C NMR chemical shifts for alpha-D-lyxofuranose, alpha-D-lyxopyranose (1)C(4), alpha-D-lyxopyranose (4)C(1), alpha-D-glucopyranose (4)C(1), and alpha-D-glucofuranose have been studied at ab initio and density-functional theory levels using TZVP quality basis set. The methods were tested by calculating the nuclear magnetic shieldings for tetramethylsilane (TMS) at different levels of theory using large basis sets. Test calculations on the monosaccharides showed B3LYP(TZVP) and BP86(TZVP) to be cost-efficient levels of theory for calculation of NMR chemical shifts of carbohydrates. The accuracy of the molecular structures and chemical shifts calculated at the B3LYP(TZVP) level is comparable to those obtained at the MP2(TZVP) level. Solvent effects were considered by surrounding the saccharides by water molecules and also by employing a continuum solvent model. None of the applied methods to consider solvent effects was successful. The B3LYP(TZVP) and MP2(TZVP)(13)C NMR chemical shift calculations yielded without solvent and rovibrational corrections an average deviation of 5.4 ppm and 5.0 ppm between calculated and measured shifts. A closer agreement between calculated and measured chemical shifts can be obtained by using a reference compound that is structurally reminiscent of saccharides such as neat methanol. An accurate shielding reference for carbohydrates can be constructed by adding an empirical constant shift to the calculated chemical shifts, deduced from comparisons of B3LYP(TZVP) or BP86(TZVP) and measured chemical shifts of monosaccharides. The systematic deviation of about 3 ppm for O(1)H chemical shifts can be designed to hydrogen bonding, whereas solvent effects on the (1)H NMR chemical shifts of C(1)H were found to be small. At the B3LYP(TZVP) level, the barrier for the torsional motion of the hydroxyl group at C(6) in alpha-D-glucofuranose was calculated to 7.5 kcal mol(-1). The torsional displacement was found to introduce large changes of up to 10 ppm to the (13)C NMR chemical shifts yielding uncertainties of about +/-2 ppm in the chemical shifts.