Predicting Co-59 NMR Chemical Shit using the NMR-DKH Basis Sets

Abstract

The cobalt-59 nucleus is an NMR active nucleus with the nuclear spin I = 7/2 and has a natural abundance of 100 %. It is an important nucleus because it has ease of detectable NMR signals both liquid and solid-state. The Co-59 NMR chemical shift range is one of the largest known in NMR spectroscopy, spanning some 18,000 ppm or more. However, Co-59 NMR is an extremely sensitive technique to external factors such as pressure, temperature, and others. Therefore, predicting Co-59 NMR chemical shift might be useful to assist experimentalists in the structural characterization. In the present study, we propose a new NMR-DKH basis set for Co atom to predict NMR chemical shift in Co complexes. Besides, we proposed a computational protocol (Functional DFT/Co basis set/Ligands basis set) for the prediction of the structure and, later, for the prediction of the Co-59 NMR chemical shift using 6 Co complexes as model systems. The results show that the computational protocol (NMR/structure) GIAO-B3LYP/NMR-DKH/IEF-PCM(UFF)//CAM-B3LYP/LANL2DZ/jorge-DZP/IEF-PCM(UFF) presents a mean relative deviation (DRM) of 1.48% for the structure, a mean absolute deviation (MAD) of 101 ppm and a DRM of 1.2% for the Co-59 chemical shift. Finally, the protocol was corrected by a linear regression model giving a MAD and MRD of 57 ppm and 0.7%, respectively.