Disentangling Complex Mixtures of Compounds with Near-Identical (1) H and (13) C NMR Spectra using Pure Shift NMR Spectroscopy.

The thorough analysis of highly complex NMR spectra using pure shift NMR experiments is described. The enhanced spectral resolution obtained from modern 2D HOBS experiments incorporating spectral aliasing in the (13) C indirect dimension enables the distinction of similar compounds exhibiting near-identical (1) H and (13) C NMR spectra. It is shown that a complete set of extremely small Δδ((1) H) and Δδ((13) C) values, even below the natural line width (1 and 5 ppb, respectively), can be simultaneously determined and assigned.