Signs of long-range amino proton – ring proton coupling constants in N-ethyl-4-chloro-2-nitroaniline

Abstract

In N-ethyl-4-chloro-2-nitroaniline there exists a measurable indirect spin–spin coupling constant of ±0.39 ± 0.03 Hz between the methylene protons and ring proton 6. The amino proton is coupled to ring protons 5 and 6 and also to the methylene protons. Consequently, although the amino proton resonance is broad due to incompletely relaxed coupling to 14N, normal multiple resonance experiments show that 5JmH,NH = 0.67 ± 0.03 Hz and 4JoH,NH = −0.35 ± 0.03 Hz.