Stereoelectronic properties and reactivity of the tetrahedral intermediate in amide hydrolysis. Nonempirical study of aminodihydroxymethane and relation to enzyme catalysis

1974 ◽  
Vol 96 (12) ◽  
pp. 4048-4050 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Lehn ◽  
G. Wipff
Keyword(s):  
Enzyme Catalysis ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Amide Hydrolysis ◽  
Nonempirical Study ◽  
Stereoelectronic Properties

A comparison of the mechanisms of hydrolysis of benzimidates, esters, and amides in sulfuric acid media

2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (9) ◽  
pp. 1391-1399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A Cox
Keyword(s):  
Sulfuric Acid ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
Ester Hydrolysis ◽  
Water Molecules ◽  
Acid Media ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Amide Hydrolysis ◽  
Solvent Isotope ◽  
Reaction Media ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

The mechanisms given in textbooks for both ester and amide hydrolysis in acid media are in need of revision. To illustrate this, benzimidates were chosen as model compounds for oxygen protonated benzamides. In aqueous sulfuric acid media they hydrolyze either by a mechanism involving attack of two water molecules at the carbonyl carbon to give a neutral tetrahedral intermediate directly, as in ester hydrolysis, or by an SN2 attack of two water molecules at the alkyl group of the alkoxy oxygen to form the corresponding amide, or by both mechanisms, depending on the structure of the benzimidate. The major line of evidence leading to these conclusions is the behavior of the excess acidity plots resulting from the rate constants obtained for the hydrolyses as functions of acid concentration and temperature. The first of these mechanisms is in fact very similar to one found for the hydrolysis of benzamides, as inferred from: (1) similar excess acidity plot behaviour; and (2) the observed solvent isotope effects for amide hydrolysis, which are fully consistent with the involvement of two water molecules, but not with one or with three (or more). This mechanism starts out as essentially the same one as that found for ester hydrolysis under the same conditions. Differences arise because the neutral tetrahedral intermediate, formed directly as a result of the protonated substrate being attacked by two water molecules (not one), possesses an easily protonated nitrogen in the amide and benzimidate cases, explaining both the lack of 18O exchange observed for amide hydrolysis and the irreversibility of the reaction. Protonated tetrahedral intermediates are too unstable to exist in the reaction media; in fact, protonation of an sp3 hybridized oxygen to put a full positive charge on it is extremely difficult. (This means that individual protonated alcohol or ether species are unlikely to exist in these media either.) Thus, the reaction of the intermediate going to product or exchanged reactant is a general-acid-catalyzed process for esters. For amide hydrolysis, the situation is complicated by the fact that another, different, mechanism takes over in more strongly acidic media, according to the excess acidity plots. Some possibilities for this are given.Key words: esters, amides, benzimidates, hydrolysis, excess acidity, mechanism, acid media.

General base-catalyzed hydrolysis and carbonyl-18O exchange of N-(4-nitrobenzoyl)pyrrole

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (10) ◽  
pp. 1410-1417
Author(s):  
Laurence J Beach ◽  
Raymond J Batchelor ◽  
Frederick WB Einstein ◽  
Andrew J Bennet
Keyword(s):  
Ph Value ◽  
Buffer Concentration ◽  
Hydrolysis Kinetics ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Ph Values ◽  
General Base ◽  
Amide Hydrolysis ◽  
Measured Ratio ◽  
Exchange Kinetics

Base-promoted hydrolysis kinetics for N-(4-nitrobenzoyl)pyrrole (1) have been measured as a function of buffer concentration at several pH values at 25°C. In addition carbonyl-18O exchange kinetics have been determined at a single pH value (9.48) as a function of 1,4-diazobicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) concentration. At zero buffer concentration the measured ratio of 18O exchange to hydrolysis (kex/khyd) is approximately 0.04, and this value increases and finally levels off at about 0.23 as the DABCO concentration is increased. These observations are consistent with the buffer acting as a general-base to catalyze both the attack of water to generate an anionic tetrahedral intermediate (To-) and the breakdown of To- to give hydrolysis products.Key words: amide, hydrolysis, catalysis, general-base, tetrahedral intermediate.

Intramolecular nucleophilic participation by the thiol group during amide hydrolysis. Part 2. The imidazole catalysis dilemma

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. McDonald ◽  
Patricia Patterson ◽  
June Rodwell ◽  
Ann Whalley
Keyword(s):  
Aqueous Solution ◽  
Thiol Group ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
General Base ◽  
General Acid ◽  
Amide Hydrolysis ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Imidazole Catalysis

Catalysis by imidazole and N-methylimidazole buffers of the intramolecular thiolysis of N-n-propyl 2-mercaptomethylbenzamide (forming 2-thiophthalide) has been studied in aqueous solution at 40.0 °C, μ = 1.0. Unlike other buffers previously studied, imidazole and N-methylimidazole are able to catalyze, by a general base route, formation of neutral tetrahedral intermediate; this pathway is rate limiting at pH ≤ 7.5. At higher pH, the previously reported general acid-catalyzed breakdown of this intermediate is rate limiting. The relevance of these observations to the currently accepted pathway for the acylation of papain by amide substrates is discussed. Keywords: amide hydrolysis, intramolecular, thiol participation, imidazole, papain model.

General Cyclopropane Assembly via Enantioselective Redox-Active Carbene Transfer to Aliphatic Olefins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Montesinos-Magraner ◽  
Matteo Costantini ◽  
Rodrigo Ramirez-Contreras ◽  
Michael E. Muratore ◽  
Magnus J. Johansson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Asymmetric Synthesis ◽  
Chemical Space ◽  
Synthetic Approach ◽  
Asymmetric Cyclopropanation ◽  
Redox Active ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Leaving Group ◽  
Stereoelectronic Properties ◽  
Carbene Transfer

Asymmetric cyclopropane synthesis currently requires bespoke strategies, methods, substrates and reagents, even when targeting similar compounds. This limits the speed and chemical space available for discovery campaigns. Here we introduce a practical and versatile diazocompound, and we demonstrate its performance in the first unified asymmetric synthesis of functionalized cyclopropanes. We found that the redox-active leaving group in this reagent enhances the reactivity and selectivity of geminal carbene transfer. This effect enabled the asymmetric cyclopropanation of a wide range of olefins including unactivated aliphatic alkenes, enabling the 3-step total synthesis of (–)-dictyopterene A. This unified synthetic approach delivers high enantioselectivities that are independent of the stereoelectronic properties of the functional groups transferred. Our results demonstrate that orthogonally-differentiated diazocompounds are viable and advantageous equivalents of single-carbon chirons<i>.</i>

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