Studies of 17 0 NMR chemical shift effects of the structural relationships of charge distributions on substituted ketones

Oxygen-17 NMR spectroscopy data, at natural abundance, in acetonitirle were obtained for a series of methyl alkyl ketones and alkyl-carboxylic acids in order to study substituent induced electronic effects on the carbonyl group. The trend in chemical shifts for the relatively unhindered ketones is a general increase shielding with increasing size of the alkyl group; however an steric chrownding becomes significant marked deshielding is observed and attributed to sterically induced depolarization of the C-O bond. Ionization potentials and net atomic charges for the methyl ketones and carboxylic acids are estimated using the MOPAC program and compared with those for substituted cyclohexanones, bicyclo-[2,2,2]-2-octanones. The 17 O - chemical shifts for some strined bridgehead methyl ketones are estimated from a correlation with 13 C - N.M.R. values for the carbonyl carbon. (author)