Reactivity of Phosphate Diesters Doubly Coordinated to a Dinuclear Cobalt(III) Complex:  Dependence of the Reactivity on the Basicity of the Leaving Group

1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (32) ◽  
pp. 8079-8087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas H. Williams ◽  
William Cheung ◽  
Jik Chin
Keyword(s):  
Leaving Group ◽  
Complex Dependence ◽  
Phosphate Diesters

Bio-inspired approaches to accelerating metal ion-promoted reactions: enzyme-like rates for metal ion mediated phosphoryl and acyl transfer processes

2015 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
pp. 601-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Stan Brown
Keyword(s):  
Metal Ion ◽  
Catalytic Efficiency ◽  
Acyl Transfer ◽  
Transfer Reactions ◽  
Medium Effect ◽  
Phosphoryl Transfer ◽  
Leaving Group ◽  
Bonding Properties ◽  
Catalyzed Reactions ◽  
Phosphate Diesters

Abstract Intense efforts by many research groups for more than 50 years have been directed at biomimetic approaches to understand how enzymes achieve their remarkable rate accelerations. Nevertheless, it was noted in 2003 that, despite numerous efforts to design models for catalyzing the cleavage of such species as phosphate diesters, “none of the several models so far described approaches the enormous catalytic efficiency of natural enzymes”. The same could be said for biomimetics of other enzymes promoting acyl or phosphoryl transfer reactions, particularly those mediated by metal ions such as Zn(II). Clearly other important factors were being overlooked or awaiting discovery. In this manuscript we describe two important effects that we have implemented to accelerate metal ion catayzed phosphoryl and acyl transfer reactions. The first of these relates to a medium effect where the polarity of the solution, as measured by dielectric constant, is reduced from that of water (ε = 78) to values of 31.5 and 24.3 when the solvent is changed to methanol or ethanol. Among organic solvents these light alcohols are closest to water in terms of structure and properties as well as retaining important H-bonding properties. The second important effect involves a known but difficult to demonstrate mode of catalysis where the leaving group (LG) in a solvolysis reaction is accelerated as it becomes progressively poorer. In the cases described herein, the LG’s propensity to depart from a substrate during the course of reaction is accelerated by coordination to a metal ion in a process known as leaving group assistance, or LGA. These two effects can each impart accelerations of 109–1017 for certain metal ion catalyzed reactions relative to the corresponding solvent, or base induced reactions.

Structure and reactivity of phosphate diesters. Dependence on the nonleaving group

2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Kirby ◽  
Bruno S. Souza ◽  
Faruk Nome
Keyword(s):  
Methyl Ester ◽  
Continuum Model ◽  
Water Molecules ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Leaving Group ◽  
Leaving Groups ◽  
Lower Temperature ◽  
Phosphate Diesters

The hydrolytic reactivity of simple phosphate diesters with very good leaving groups is known to be practically independent of the nonleaving group at 100 °C. Calculations on the (too slow to measure) hydrolysis at 25 °C of a series of p-nitrophenyl diesters ROPO2––OpNP with a wide range of nonleaving group OR indicate a small but significant effect at the lower temperature, making the R = methyl ester the most reactive. This is in the opposite sense to the much larger effect observed for the reactions of triesters and consistent with a reaction driven primarily by leaving group departure. The calculations use a continuum model with up to four discrete water molecules: two or three waters give the best results.

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>

Allylic Amination via Acid Catalyzed Leaving Group Activation

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Marija Skvorcova ◽  
Aigars Jirgensons
Keyword(s):  
Allylic Amination ◽  
Leaving Group ◽  
Acid Catalyzed

The effect of steric size of leaving group on rates of the competing syn- and anti-pathways in biomolecular elimination

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 2171-2178
Author(s):  
Jiří Závada ◽  
Magdalena Pánková
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Homologous Series ◽  
Leaving Group ◽  
Leaving Groups

Approximate rates of the competing syn- and anti-pathways have been determined in t-C4H9OK-t-C4H9OH promoted elimination from two homologous series of tosylates: I-OTs trans-III (R = H, CH3, C2H5, n-C3H7, i-C3H7, t-C4H9) and II-OTs trans-IV (R = CH3, C2H5, n-C3H7, i-C3H7, t-C4H9). A comparison has been made with rates of the same processes in the (+) elimination of the corresponding trimethylammonium salts I-N(CH3)3 trans-III and (+) II-N(CH3)3 trans-IV. The title effect is demonstrated by a comparative analysis of the rate patterns obtained for the two leaving groups.

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