ASSIGNMENT OF NMR SIGNALS FOR CHLOROPRENE RUBBER BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL NMR SPECTROSCOPY

Abstract

ABSTRACT Various pulse techniques of NMR spectroscopy were applied to CR to assign some small signals in 13C and 1H NMR spectra for the rubber. First, the rubber was subjected to distortionless enhancement by polarization transfer and attached proton test. The small signals in the 13C NMR spectrum were assigned to secondary, tertiary, and quaternary carbons. Second, correlations between 13C and 1H were investigated by heteronuclear multiple quantum correlation, heteronuclear two bond correlation, and heteronuclear multiple bond correlation measurements to assign the small signals in the 13C NMR spectrum in detail. By using the resulting correlations between 13C and 1H, the small unassigned signals in 1H NMR spectrum were assigned to methylene and methine protons of the rubber.