ABSTRACT:An attempt was made to give a full assignment, using only NMR information, to all peaks in 1 Hand 13 C NMR spectra for systems of cellulose in 2.5 N NaOD/D2O and of cellulose triacetate (CTA, total degree of substitution 2.92) in deuterated trichloromethane (TCM-d), and in deuterated dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO-d6). For this purpose two-dimensional (2D) homonuclear 1 H shift correlation spectroscopy (COSY), heteronuclear 1 H-13 C shift correlation spectroscopy (C-H COSY), and long-range heteronuclear 1 H-13 C shift correlation spectroscopy (long-range C-H COSY) were applied to the above systems. By COSY 1 H peaks of cellulose/aq. alkali solution were assigned, from lower magnetic field, to H,, H6 , H6 ', (H3 + H4 + H5), and H2 protons, respectively.Here, two unequivalent H6 peaks heavily overlapped in the one-dimensional spectrum were observed very separately in 2D spectrum. By C-H COSY 13 C peaks of cellulose were assigned, from lower magnetic field, to C1, (C3, C4 , C5), C2 , and C6 carbons, respectively. C3 , C4 , and C5 carbon peaks were unable to be assigned separately, due to mutual and heavy overlapping of H3 , H4 , and H5 peaks. For cellulose triacetate, through use of COSY and C-H COSY all peaks in the region of glucopyranose backbone in 1 H and 13 C NMR wre able to be successfully and completely assigned. Long-range C-H COSY confirmed definitely the existence of the close correlationships between acetyl methyl proton and carbonyl carbon at the different carbon positions of CTA, which showed again the validity of the previous assignment with respect to carbonyl carbons (i.e., C6 , C3 , and C2 carbons from lower magnetic field).
KEY WORDSCellulose / Cellulose Acetate / Cellulose Triacetate / 13 C NMR / 1 H NMR / Two-Dimensional NMR / Correlation Spectroscopy/ Long-Range Heteronuclear Correlation Spectroscopy/ Recently numerous studies have been published on the high resolution NMR spectra of solutim1.s of cellulose and its derivatives. NMR spectra of cellulose were utilized widely as a method for elucidating the dissolved state of solutes in solvents (i.e., interaction between solutes and solvents) and those of cellulose derivatives were employed for analysis of the average degree of substitution for each three hydroxyl groups «:fk» (k =2, 3, 6) in the glucopyranose unit: For example, Kamide et a/. 1 showed, from 1 H NMR spectra of eellulose in dimethylformamide/chloral/pyridine mixture, that cellulose dissolved in the form of cellulose trichlorate (CTC) in the solution. Gagnaire and his coworkers 2 speculated the dissolved state of cellulose in Nmethylmorpholine-N-Oxide/dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), methylamine/DMSO, hydrazine/ DMSO, and paraformaldehyde/DMSO by comparing the 13 C chemical shifts in these solutions. Kamide and his collaborators 3 showed that a physically treated cellulose, whose intramolecular hydrogen bondings were de-* To whom all correspondence should be addressed.
1091