
Safety note: Some of the materials mentioned here are very dangerous. Ask a qualified chemist for advice before handling them. Qualified chemists should check the relevant safety literature before handling or giving advice about unfamiliar substances. NMR solvents are toxic and most are flammable. Specifically, tin may be toxic in large doses. Tin (IV) chloride reacts violently with water yielding corrosive and poisonous HCl.
Tin is unique in that it has no less than three NMR active spin ½ nuclei, 115Sn, 117Sn and 119Sn, that yield narrow signals over a very wide chemical shift range. 119Sn is very slightly the more sensitive than 117Sn so 119Sn is therefore usually the preferred nucleus. 115Sn is much less sensitive than either 117Sn or 119Sn. Tin NMR is mostly used for the study of organotin compounds, but is also applicable to inorganic tin compounds.
Each type of tin compound has its characteristic chemical shift range.
Chemical shift ranges for tin NMR

Comparison of the NMR spectra of the tin isotopes 115Sn,
117Sn and 119Sn for SnCl4 (neat)

All the tin nuclei couple to other nuclei, 1H, 13C, 31P, 19F, etc., couplings have been reported. One bond couplings to 13C are getween 1500 and 1200 Hz. To 1H one bond couplings are from 1750 to 3000 Hz, to 19F from 130 to 2000 Hz and to 31P they are from 50 to 2400 Hz. Two-bond Sn-H coupling constants are apporximately 50 Hz. Homonuclear 119Sn-119Sn and heteronuclear 119Sn-117Sn have been reported from 200 to 4500 Hz. Three and four bond couplings have been reported.
115Sn is much less sensitive than the other
tin nuclei, so is not usually the preferred nucleus of tin. It is a spin ½
nucleus and yields sharp signals.
115Sn-NMR
spectrum of SnCl4 (neat)

|
Spin |
1/2 |
|
|
Natural abundance |
0.34% |
|
|
Chemical shift range |
2600 ppm, from -1900 to 700 |
|
|
Frequency ratio (Ξ) |
32.718749% |
|
|
Reference compound |
Me4Sn 90% in C6D6 |
|
|
Linewidth of reference |
2.7 Hz |
|
|
T1 of reference |
0.65 s |
|
|
Receptivity rel. to 1H at natural abundance |
1.24 × 10-4 |
|
|
Receptivity rel. to 1H when enriched |
0.0365 |
|
|
Receptivity rel. to 13C at natural abundance |
0.711 |
|
|
Receptivity rel. to 13C when enriched |
209 |
|
117Sn is slightly less sensitive than 119Sn so is not usually the preferred nucleus of tin. It is a spin ½ nucleus and yields sharp signals.
117Sn-NMR spectrum of SnCl4
(neat)

|
Spin |
1/2 |
|
Natural abundance |
7.68% |
|
Chemical shift range |
2600 ppm, from -1900 to 700 |
|
Frequency ratio (Ξ) |
35.632259% |
|
Reference compound |
Me4Sn 90% in C6D6 |
|
Linewidth of reference |
2.5 Hz |
|
T1 of reference |
0.65 s |
|
Receptivity rel. to 1H at natural abundance |
3.54 × 10-3 |
|
Receptivity rel. to 1H when enriched |
0.0461 |
|
Receptivity rel. to 13C at natural abundance |
20.8 |
|
Receptivity rel. to 13C when enriched |
271 |
119Sn is slightly more sensitive than 117Sn and much more sensitive than 115Sn so is usually the preferred nucleus of tin. It is a spin ½ nucleus and yields sharp signals.
119Sn-NMR spectrum of SnCl4
(neat)

|
Spin |
1/2 |
|
Natural abundance |
8.59% |
|
Chemical shift range |
2600 ppm, from -1900 to 700 |
|
Frequency ratio (Ξ) |
37.290632% |
|
Reference compound |
Me4Sn 90% in C6D6 |
|
Linewidth of reference |
2.5 Hz |
|
T1 of reference |
0.65 s |
|
Receptivity rel. to 1H at natural abundance |
4.53 × 10-3 |
|
Receptivity rel. to 1H when enriched |
0.0527 |
|
Receptivity rel. to 13C at natural abundance |
26.6 |
|
Receptivity rel. to 13C when enriched |
310 |
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