Two other types of protons resonate in the region around 9–10 ppm: some aromatic protons and some protons attached to heteroatoms like OH and NH. We will deal with NH and OH protons in the next section, but fi rst we must look at some electron-deficient aromatic rings with distinctively large shifts. Protons on double bonds, even very electron-deficient double bonds like those of nitro alkenes, hardly get into the aldehyde region. However, some benzene rings with very electron withdrawing groups do manage it because of the extra downfi eld shift of the ring current, so look out for nitrobenzenes as they may have signals in the 8–9 ppm region.

 More important molecules with signals in this region are the aromatic heterocycles such as pyridine, which you saw functioning as a base in Chapters 8 and 10. The NMR shifts clearly show that pyridine is aromatic: one proton is at 7.1 ppm, essentially the same as benzene, but the others are more downfi eld and one, at C₂, is in the aldehyde region. This is not because pyridine is ‘more aromatic’ than benzene but because nitrogen is more electronegative than carbon. Position C₂ is like an aldehyde—a proton attached to sp² C bearing a heteroatom— while C₄ is electron deficient due to conjugation (the electronegative nitrogen is electron with drawing). Isoquinoline is a pyridine and a benzene ring fused together and has a proton even further downfi eld at 9.1 ppm—this is an imine proton that experiences the ring current of the benzene ring.

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Some compounds can exist as a pair of mirror-image forms

Coupling in the proton NMR spectrum Nearby hydrogen nuclei interact and give multiple peaks

Exchange of acidic protons is revealed in proton NMR spectra

Protons on heteroatoms have more variable shifts than protons on carbon

The aldehyde region: unsaturated carbon bonded to oxygen

Structural information from the alkene region

Electron-rich and electron-deficient alkenes

How electron donation and withdrawal change chemical shifts

Uneven electron distribution in aromatic rings

The benzene ring current causes large shifts for aromatic protons

Summary chart of proton NMR shifts

Chemical shifts of CH groups