The observed and calculated 1H and 13C chemical shifts of tertiary amines and their N-oxides

Abstract

A series of model tertiary amines were oxidized in situ in an NMR tube to amine N-oxides and their 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded. Next, the chemical shifts induced by oxidation (Δλ) were calculated using different GIAO methods investigating the influence of the method [Hartree-Fock (HF), Moeller-Plesset perturbation, density functional theory (DFT)], the functional applied in the DFT (B3LYP, BPW, OPBE, OPW91) and the basis set used [6-31G*, 6-311G**, 6-311 + + G** and 6-311 + + G(3df,3pd)]. The best results were obtained with the HF/6-311 + + G** and OPBE/6-311 + + G** methods. The computation/experiment comparison approach was used for the configuration prediction of chiral amine N-oxides-(R) and (S)-agroclavine-6-N-oxide. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.