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Simple NMR question about coupling in different solvents
« on: December 31, 2014, 11:27:31 AM »
The hydrogen atom attached to the alpha carbon atom in pyrrole won't couple with the N-H proton,because in DCl, the H will exchange with D, and HOD is produced. What if DMF, was used as a solvent? Would the N-H proton of pyrrole couple with the alpha carbon's hydrogen atom?

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Re: Simple NMR question about coupling in different solvents
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2014, 12:00:31 PM »
Yes it would. Exchange of H for D is a standard method in NMR to detect the presence of exchangeable protons. Either a signal vanishes or gets smaller, if the exchange is slow. Or the integral of a signal decreases because the exchangeable proton lies underneath another signal of multiplet.
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