According to the 1 H and 13 C NMR data, bifurcated intramolecular hydrogen bond NH···N··· HN in 2,6-bis(2-pyrrolyl)pyridine fixes its molecule in a conformation with syn orientation of the pyrrole rings. An analogous bifurcated hydrogen bond CH · · · N · · · HC is formed in 2,6-bis(1-vinyl-2-pyrrolyl)pyridine. 2-(1-Vinyl-2-pyrrolyl)-6-(2-pyrrolyl)pyridine is characterized by unsymmetrical bifurcated hydrogen bond NH···N···HC.Systematic studies on the 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra of a wide series of pyrrole derivatives [1-7] allowed us to distinguish 2-hetarylpyrroles as a class of compounds giving rise to various intramolecular hydrogen bonds. For example, a weak intramolecular hydrogen bond CH · · · N between the -hydrogen atom of the vinyl group and pyridine nitrogen atom was found in 1-vinyl-2-(2-pyridyl)pyrrole [6]. 2-(2-Pyridyl)pyrrole is characterized by a weak intramolecular hydrogen bond NH···N between the pyrrole N-H atom and pyridine nitrogen atom [4]. The 1 H NMR and IR spectra of 5-(2-pyridyl)-2-trifluoroacetylpyrrole revealed a bifurcated hydrogen bond involving both pyridine nitrogen atom and carbonyl oxygen atom of the trifluoroacetyl group [4,5]. In continuation of our studies on intramolecular hydrogen bonds in pyrrole derivatives, in the present work we examined the 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra of 2,6-bis(2-pyrrolyl)pyridine (I) and 2,6-bis-(1-vinyl-2-pyrrolyl)pyridine (VI) and compared the results with those found for model compounds II-V and VII-XIV.The 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra of pyrroles I-XIV are given in Tables 1 and 2, and the 13 C-1 H coupling constants are collected in Table 3. Following the previously used algorithm for studying 2-hetarylpyrroles by NMR spectroscopy, let us consider first the character of , conjugation between the heterorings in compounds I and VI on the basis of the corresponding carbon chemical shifts. We showed in [4] that the signals from C 3' and C 5' in the pyridine ring of I-V, R 1 = H; I, R 2 = H; II, R 2 = 2-pyridyl; III, R 2 = 3-pyridyl; IV, R 2 = 4-pyridyl; V, R 2 = Ph; VI-XIII, R 1 = CH 2 =CH; VI, VII, R 2 = CH 2 =CH; VIII, R 2 = 2-pyridyl; IX, R 2 = 3-pyridyl; X, R 2 = 4-pyridyl; XI, R 2 = Ph; XII, XIII, R 2 = H.
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