Nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY) detection of the specific interaction between substituents in cellulose and amylose triacetates.

Abstract

Nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy measurements on cellulose triacetate and on amylose triacetate with a mixing time of 500 ms, on the order of T1 of acetyl protons, were performed to detect the specific through-space interaction between acetyl groups arising from their helix structures in solution. For cellulose triacetate, cross peaks were detected in CDCl3 between acetyl proton signals at 3 and 6 positions on an anhydroglucose unit. In DMSO-d6, on the other hand, correlation peaks were observed not only between the 3 and 6 positions but also the 2 and 6 positions. For amylose triacetate, cross peaks were detected in CDCl3 between the acetyl proton signals at the 2 and 6 positions. The through-space interaction of acetyl groups in cellulose triacetate and in amylose triacetate in solution was then interpreted based on their three-dimensional structures in solid state determined by x-ray crystallography.