title: Structural assignment of 2,6- and 2,7-disubstituted naphthalenes and prediction of (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shifts: applications of topology and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy.
abstract: Unambiguous assignments of monocarboxymethylnapthalenes isolated as oxidation products of dimethylnaphthalenes by Pseudomonas putida, a bacterial strain, were made using two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser enhancement correlation spectroscopy (NOESEY). The two-dimensional long-range heteronuclear correlation NMR technique was also utilized for the assignment of quaternary carbons in the naphthalene system. In addition, we describe methods for prediction of 13C NMR chemical shifts of 2,6- and 2,7-disubstituted naphthalenes using topological approach. The method involves computation of molecular descriptors from topological representation of molecule, namely Wiener (W) and Szeged (Sz) indices. The results have shown that W and Sz indices can be successfully used for predicting 13C NMR chemical shifts and that Sigma13Cn can be used as a molecular property which in turn can be modeled by both W and Sz indices successfully.
authors.affiliation: Research Division, Laxmi Fumigation & Pest Control Pvt. Ltd., 3 Khatipura Indore 452007, India. anjalee_shrivastava@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: Padmakar V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Khadikar
authors.forename: Sadanand V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Pathre
authors.forename: Anjali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shrivastava
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008745:Methylation; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D009281:Naphthalenes / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D016958:Pseudomonas putida / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D012044:Regression Analysis
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D009281:Naphthalenes