Abstract
We report the first solid-state (17)O NMR determination of the (17)O quadrupole coupling (QC) tensor and chemical shift (CS) tensor for four (17)O-labeled C-nitrosoarene compounds: p-[(17)O]nitroso-N,N-dimethylaniline ([(17)O]NODMA), SnCl(2)(CH(3))(2)([(17)O]NODMA)(2), ZnCl(2)([(17)O]NODMA)(2), and [(17)O]NODMA.HCl. The (17)O quadrupole coupling constants (C(Q)) observed in these C-nitrosoarene compounds are on the order of 10-15 MHz, among the largest values found to date for organic compounds. The (17)O CS tensor in these compounds exhibits remarkable sensitivity toward the nitroso bonding scheme with the chemical shift anisotropy (delta(11) - delta(33)) ranging from just 350 ppm in [(17)O]NODMA.HCl to over 2800 ppm in [(17)O]NODMA. This latter value is among the largest (17)O chemical shift anisotropies reported in the literature. These extremely anisotropic (17)O NMR interactions make C-nitrosoarene compounds excellent test cases that allow us to assess the detection limit of solid-state (17)O NMR. Our results suggest that, at 21.14 T, solid-state (17)O NMR should be applicable to all oxygen-containing organic functional groups. We also show that density functional theory (DFT) calculations can reproduce reasonably well the experimental (17)O QC and CS tensors for these challenging molecules. By combining quantum chemical calculations with experimental solid-state (17)O NMR results, we are able to determine the (17)O QC and CS tensor orientations in the molecular frame of reference for C-nitrosoarenes. We present a detailed analysis illustrating how magnetic field-induced mixing between individual molecular orbitals (MOs) contributes to the (17)O shielding tensor in C-nitrosoarene compounds. We also perform a Townes-Dailey analysis for the observed (17)O QC tensors and show that (17)O CS and QC tensors are intrinsically related through the pi bond order of the N horizontal lineO bond. Furthermore, we are able for the first time to examine the parallelism between individual (17)O and (15)N CS tensor components in C-nitrosoarenes.
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