Nuclear Spin−Spin Coupling via Nonbonded Interactions. 8.1 The Distance Dependence of Through-Space Fluorine−Fluorine Coupling

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Abstract

The 19F19F nuclear spin−spin coupling constants JFF for a set of eighteen compounds related structurally to 1,8-difluoronaphthalene were measured by 19F NMR spectroscopy. The FF distances dFF in these compounds were determined by ab initio 3-21G* molecular orbital calculations. Consistent with the lone-pair overlap theory of the origins of through-space 19F19F coupling, an exponential relationship is found between JFF and dFF (regression coefficient r2 = 0.991), and a linear relationship is found between JFF and the extent of the overlap interaction between the in-plane fluorine 2plone-pair orbitals (regression coefficient r2 = 0.993). The magnitudes of these lone-pair interactions were estimated from molecular orbital energies obtained by ab initio 6-31G* calculations for a model consisting of a pair of HF molecules separated by various distances.

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