Wojciech Schilf

CP/MAS spectroscopy in the determination of the tautomeric forms of gossypol, its Schiff bases and hydrazones in the solid state

New Schiff bases and new hydrazones were synthesized and studied by 13C and 15N CP/MAS spectroscopy and by 1H1H COSY, 1H13C HMBC, 1H13C HSQC, 1H15N HMQC and 1H15N HSQC correlations. The CP/MAS investigation of gossypol has demonstrated that in the solid state it exists exclusively in the aldehyde‐aldehyde tautomeric form. In contrast, CP/MAS studies of hydrazones and Schiff bases reveal that these compounds occur in the solid state in the N‐imine–N‐imine and enamine–enamine tautomeric forms, respectively. It is shown that the 13C resonances of C‐6, C‐7 and C‐11 carbon atoms are suitable for distinguishing between the tautomeric forms of aza‐derivatives of gossypol in the solid state. Furthermore, we have proved that the 15N CP/MAS spectra can be used to identify these tautomeric forms. Copyright

13C and 15N CP/MAS, 1H–15N SCT CP/MAS and FTIR spectroscopy as tools for qualitative detection of the presence of zwitterionic and non-ionic forms of ansa-macrolide 3-formylrifamycin SV and its derivatives in solid state

13C, 15N CP/MAS, including 1H–13C and 1H–15N short contact time CP/MAS experiments, and FTIR methods were applied for detailed structural characterization of ansa‐macrolides as 3‐formylrifamycin SV (1) and its derivatives (2–6) in crystal and in powder forms. Although HPLC chromatograms for 2/CH3OH and 2/CH3CCl3 were the same for rifampicin crystals dissolved in respective solvents, the UV–vis data recorded for them were different in 300–375 nm region. Detailed solid state 13C and 15N CP/MAS NMR and FTIR studies revealed that rifampicin (2), in contrast to 3‐formylrifamycin SV (1) and its amino derivatives (3–6), can occur in pure non‐ionic or zwitterionic forms in crystal and in pure these forms or a mixture of them in a powder. Multinuclear CP/MAS and FTIR studies demonstrated also that 3–6 derivatives were present exclusively in pure zwitterionic forms, both in powder and in crystal. On the basis of the solid state NMR and FTIR studies, two conformers of 3‐formylrifamycin SV were detected in powder form due to the different orientations of carbonyl group of amide moiety. The PM6 molecular modeling at the semi‐empirical level of theory, allowed visualization the most energetically favorable non‐ionic and zwitterionic forms of 1–6 antibiotics, strongly stabilized via intramolecular H‐bonds. FTIR studies indicated that the originally adopted forms of these type antibiotics in crystal or in powder are stable in standard laboratory conditions in time. The results presented point to the fact that because of a possible presence of two forms of rifampicin (compound 2), quantification of the content of this antibiotic in relevant pharmaceuticals needs caution. Copyright

Impact of metal cation complexation and protonation on tautomeric and resonance forms of the oxaalkyl Schiff bases derived from 5-substituted salicylaldehyde and 2-hydroxy-1-naphthlaldehyde

Structures of the main resonance and tautomeric forms of three Schiff bases of 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde (1OXA), 5-bromosalicylaldehyde (2OXA) and 5-nitrosalicylaldehyde (3OXA) with 1,8-diamine-3,6-dioxaoctane, before and after protonation and complexation of monovalent metal cations, have been studied by FTIR, 1H, 13C and 15N NMR methods. The spectroscopic investigations provided clear evidence that the Schiff bases exist in acetonitrile solution as three different tautomers: 1OXA in enamine-oxo, 2OXA in imine-hydroxy and 3OXA in a low-barrier O···H···N imine-oxo forms. It was found on the basis of multinuclear NMR studies, that in solid state, the enamine-oxo and imine-hydroxy tautomers are formed exclusively, but not the untypical imine-oxo tautomer, which requires strong stabilisation by solvent molecules in solution. MOG-PM6 calculations of the different tautomers allowed visualisation of their energetically the most favourable structures. Protonation of 1OXA–3OXA Schiff bases leads to formation of common forms, i.e. protonated imine-hydroxy structure, irrespectively of the structure of tautomer before protonation. In turn, coordination of monovalent metal cations implies common formation of zwitterionic forms within all studied ligands in solution. Application of FT-IR and NMR titrations in combination with ESI MS spectrometry revealed the nature and the structure of OXA complexes, whose formation is impeded by the intra- and intermolecular interactions. MOG-PM6 calculations allowed visualisation of Li+ and Na+ metal coordination sphere geometries within structure of all investigated complexes, stabilised by intermolecular interactions with solvent molecules.

Free and associated trimethylsilyl cation in solution

The trimethylsilyl cation (Me3Si+) has been prepared as an ion pair with perchlorate in CH2Cl2 or as the nonspecifically solvated ion in dilute sulpholane by hydride abstraction from trimethylsilane.