1H NMR study of proton motion in hydrogen-bonded chain in Mannich base of 5,5′-dibromo-3-diethylaminomethyl-2,2′-biphenol

Abstract

5,5′-dibromo-3-diethylaminomethyl-2,2′-biphenol was synthesized and the collective proton motion in two intramolecular hydrogen bonds was studied by 1H and 13C NMR as well as by FTIR spectroscopy in chloroform, acetonitrile and chloroform containing traces of water solutions. In dry chloroform, always, two separated proton signals for the two OH groups were observed. If traces of water were present at room temperature in the chloroform solution only one signal for the two OH protons was found. With decreasing temperature the collective proton motion, indicated by continuous absorption in the FTIR spectrum, was interrupted and two separate signals appeared in the 1H NMR spectrum. In acetonitrile the collective proton motion in the two intramolecular hydrogen-bonded system observed at room temperature vanished with decreasing temperature and finally only a cooperative hydrogen-bonded system, like in the solid state, was observed.