This is NanoBalletDancer. How many different carbon environments are there in NanoBalletDancer – i.e. how many signals would be seen in total in the 13C NMR spectrum?
I counted 8 signals from benzene ring carbons 4 from methyl group carbons 4 from triple bond carbons
What is the total amount of signals? Which did I miss?
3 different methyl signals: (1, 16) (40, 41) (27, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35)
4 different methylene signals: (17) (2, 15) (3,14) (37, 39)
1 aliphatic CH signal: (36)
2 different aliphatic quaternary C signals: (26, 32) (38)
4 different triple bond C signals: (24, 30) (25, 31) (4, 13) (5, 12)
8 different aromatic carbons: (7) (10) (6, 8) (9, 11) (18) (21) (19, 23) (20, 22)
22 different signals
Just looked at a model, methyls 40 and 41 are different; one is on the same side of the 6-membered ring as the benzene ring, the other is on the same side of the 6-membered ring as the hydrogen at C-36
23 different signals!
See the given figure below, where each unique signal is given a specific color and a shape which is unique to it. Carbons 6 and 8 produce the same signal, yet they are left purposely blank, since I ran out of colours.
Counting 2 and 15 makes it 22, however, since there isn't really much difference between the two apical methyl groups the answer should be 22. I am guessing they took the apical 40,41 methyl groups to produce different signals thus making it 23.
