Electron and hole interactions with P, Z, and P:Z and the formation of mutagenic products by proton transfer reactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 919-931
Author(s):  
N. R. Jena

Z would act as an electron acceptor and P would capture a hole in the unnatural DNA. The latter process would produce mutagenic products via a proton transfer reaction.

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 8661-8666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Savarese ◽  
Paolo A. Netti ◽  
Nadia Rega ◽  
Carlo Adamo ◽  
Ilaria Ciofini

The mechanism of intermolecular proton shuttling involved in a prototypical excited state proton transfer reaction is disclosed using DFT and TD-DFT.


2002 ◽  
Vol 731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kroll ◽  
Dirk Mertens

AbstractStructural models of silicon imidonitride (SiNH) solids are studied using density functional methods. The porous models have densities between 1.6 and 2.4 g/cm3 with pore sizes between 4.5 Å and 7.5 Å. The networks consist of Si-N and N-H bonds only, with N-H and N-H2 groups located at the internal surface. Calculated Raman spectra compare very well with experimental results. We observed proton transfer reactions from an inserted malononitrile molecule to the SiNH-host during Car-Parrinello molecular dynamic simulations. The proton affinity of porous silicon imidonitride structures is confirmed by an energy gain for the proton transfer reaction to both N-H and N-H2 groups.


2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (44) ◽  
pp. 5950-5953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingguang Pan ◽  
R. Vijayaraghavan ◽  
Fengling Zhou ◽  
Mega Kar ◽  
Haoran Li ◽  
...  

This work presents a new strategy for the promotion of CO2 uptake by an intramolecular proton transfer reaction in amino functionalized hydroxypyridine based anions.


1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 954-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold Jarczewski ◽  
Przemyslaw Pruszynski ◽  
Mohammed Kazi ◽  
Kenneth T. Leffek

The carbon acid 1-(4-nitrophenyl)-1-nitroethane reacts with phenyltetramethylguanidine in the aprotic solvents acetonitrile, benzonitrile, and chlorobenzene in a bimolecular proton transfer reaction. The primary isotope effects, kH/kD, for these reactions at 25 °C are 8.5 ± 0.4, 6.1 ± 0.4, and 16 in acetonitrile, benzonitrile, and chlorobenzene respectively. The magnitude of the isotope effects on the enthalpy of activation [Formula: see text] are 2.3 ± 0.2, 1.6 ± 0.7, and 4.2 ± 0.6 kcal mol−1, which indicates a contribution from proton tunnelling to the reaction rate of the normal substrate.


2001 ◽  
Vol 79 (7) ◽  
pp. 1128-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Grzeskowiak ◽  
Wtodzimierz Galezowski ◽  
Arnold Jarczewski

The rates of proton transfer reactions between C-acids of the series of nitroalkanes with increasing bulk of R = H, Me, Et, i-Pr substituent as: 4-nitrophenylnitromethane (0), 1-(4-nitrophenyl)-1-nitroethane (1), 1-(4-nitrophenyl)-1-nitropropane (2), 2-methyl-1-(4-nitrophenyl)-1-nitropropane (3) and 1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene (TBD), 7-methyl-1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene (MTBD) have been measured in acetonitrile at pseudo-first-order conditions. The product of the proton transfer reaction with MTBD in acetonitrile is dissociated into free ions while that of the TBD reaction is composed of a comparable amount of ions and ion pairs. The second-order rate constants (k2H) for these bases of almost equal strength in acetonitrile (pKa = 24.70, 24.97 for MTBD and TBD) and C-acids 1, 2, and 3 are: 317, 86, 7.6 dm3 mol–1 s–1; and 15 200, 5300, 1100 dm3 mol–1 s–1, respectively. The appropriate primary deuterium kinetic isotope effects (kH/kD) are 12.5, 10.8, 6.9; and 9.9, 11.2, 12.6. The influence of steric hindrance brought by reacting C-acids and bases is discussed. The different structure of the transition states and the products as mono- and double-hydrogen bonded complexes for these series of C-acids and MTBD and TBD bases is manifested by a distinct reaction mechanism which we attempt to explain.Key words: proton transfer, kinetic study, C-acids, organic bases, acetonitrile, kinetic isotope effects.


2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (11) ◽  
pp. 1321-1326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dörte Steinbrück ◽  
Claudia Rasch ◽  
Michael U. Kumke

Abstract The photophysics of Ochratoxin A (OTA) in aqueous solution strongly depends on the pH. Due to its molecular structure OTA is prone to an excited state proton transfer reaction, which rules the photophysical properties. Based on results of absorption and fluorescence measurements the rate constants of the proton transfer reactions (forward and back reaction) were determined and subsequently, the pK*a value was calculated. Based on the results, optimized experimental conditions for the analysis can be determined e. solvent conditions (HPLC chromatography) or excitation and emission wavelength (fluorescence spectroscopy).


1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Körner ◽  
G. C. Morrison ◽  
L. R. Greenwood ◽  
R. H. Siemssen

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Hang Kim ◽  
Kenneth T. Leffek

The primary deuterium isotope effect has been measured for the proton transfer reaction from di-(4-nitrophenyl)methane to t-butoxide ion in a solvent consisting of 10% v/v toluene in t-butanol at a series of temperatures between 20 and 45 °C. The isotopic rate ratio, kH/kD, is 7.3 at 25 °C. The activation parameters showed an enthalpy of activation difference (ΔHD≠ − ΔHH≠) of only ca. [Formula: see text] kcal mol−1 and an entropy isotope effect (ΔSD≠ − ΔSH≠) of −2.4 cal mol−1 deg−1. The latter indicates, according to the theory of Bell, that tunnelling of the proton through the energy barrier is unimportant in this reaction. This result is compared to other reactions in the literature, in which tunnelling has been postulated to occur.


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