CHEM 125A: FRESHMAN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II - Lecture 25

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CHEM 125A: FRESHMAN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II - Lecture 25 - Professor J. Michael McBride

C-13 and 2D NMR – Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Proton decoupling simplifies C-13 NMR spectra. Dilute double labeling with C-13 confirmed the complex rearrangement scheme in steroid biosynthesis. Two-dimensional NMR yields correlations between NMR signals that underlie structural determination of proteins and identification of the mechanism of a rapid carbocation rearrangement. Substitution of an electrophile for a proton on an aromatic ring proceeds by a two-step association-dissociation mechanism involving a cyclohexadienyl cation intermediate. The relative rates of forming various products from substituted benzenes correlates with the substituents' influences on the stability of the various cyclohexadienyl cation intermediates. The spectrum of electrophile reactivities is very broad. Important contributions for activating electrophiles were made by Friedel and Crafts working in Paris.

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