scholarly journals The reaction of bilirubin with diazomethane

1973 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Kuenzle ◽  
M. H. Weibel ◽  
R. R. Pelloni
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Dimethyl Ester ◽  
Equilibrium Mixture ◽  
Conformational Structure ◽  
Free Rotation ◽  
Polar Solvents ◽  
Methylene Bridge ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Conformational Isomers ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen

Dimethoxybilirubin dimethyl ester and monomethoxybilirubin dimethyl ester were prepared by treating bilirubin with diazomethane, and the correctness of the assigned structures was proved by elemental analysis as well as by i.r. and n.m.r. spectroscopy. The phenylazo compounds derived from monomethoxybilirubin dimethyl ester were also prepared and characterized spectroscopically. Dimethoxybilirubin dimethyl ester occurs in solution as a single molecular species, unlike bilirubin dimethyl ester, which in non-polar solvents exists as an equilibrium mixture of conformational isomers. This difference in the behaviour of the two compounds is explained by the absence of intramolecular hydrogen bonds in dimethoxybilirubin dimethyl ester, a situation that allows free rotation about the central methylene bridge, whereas in bilirubin dimethyl ester an internally hydrogen-bonded conformation can be distinguished by n.m.r. spectroscopy from a non-bonded family of rotamers. This finding is regarded as additional evidence for a newly conceived conformational structure of bilirubin and bilirubin dimethyl ester that is maximally stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds. This is discussed in detail in the Appendix (Kuenzle et al., 1973), which also includes a description of the molecular mechanism pertaining to the reaction of bilirubin with diazomethane.

scholarly journals Appendix: Structure and conformation of bilirubin. Opposing views that invoke tautomeric equilibria, hydrogen bonding and a betaine may be reconciled by a single resonance hybrid

1973 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Kuenzle ◽  
M. H. Weibel ◽  
R. R. Pelloni ◽  
P. Hemmerich
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonding ◽  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Serum Albumin ◽  
Spectral Properties ◽  
Dimethyl Ester ◽  
Carboxyl Group ◽  
Conformational Structure ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen ◽  
Resonance Hybrid

A novel conformational structure of bilirubin is presented which obtains maximum stabilization through a system of four intramolecular hydrogen bonds. Two hydrogen bonds link oxygen and nitrogen atoms of each end ring to the contralateral carboxyl group. The proposed structure can explain a variety of uncommon features of bilirubin, and reconciles many seemingly contradictory hypotheses by accommodating them in individual structures which are mesomeric forms of one resonance hybrid. In the light of this newly conceived structure the following characteristics of bilirubin are re-evaluated: the stability of the compound, its reaction with diazomethane, the conformational behaviour of its dimethyl ester, its spectral properties, the chirality of the compound when complexed to serum albumin, and the structure of its metal chelates.

Controlling emissive properties by intramolecular hydrogen bonds: alkyl and aryl meso‐substituted porphycenes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Waluk ◽  
Arkadiusz Listkowski ◽  
Natalia Masiera ◽  
Michał Kijak ◽  
Roman Luboradzki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen

Energies of intramolecular hydrogen bonds in some alcohols

1974 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 414-415
Author(s):  
Ya. A. Shuster ◽  
V. A. Granzhan ◽  
P. M. Zaitsev
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen

Hydrogen bonds in derivatives of N-substituted N’-benzoyl- and N’-(2-chlorobenzoyl)thiourea

1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 880-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oľga Hritzová ◽  
Dušan Koščík
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Spectral Studies ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Tautomeric Forms ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen ◽  
Derivatives Of

Intramolecular hydrogen bonds of the N-H···O=C type have been detected in the derivatives of N-substituted N’-benzoyl- and N’-(2-chlorobenzoyl)thiourea on the basis of IR spectral studies. The title compounds can exist in two tautomeric forms.

Spin-spin coupling via intramolecular hydrogen bonds

1985 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 808-810
Author(s):  
L. N. Kurkovskaya ◽  
Yu. M. Chunaev ◽  
N. M. Przhiyalgovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Spin Coupling ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen ◽  
Spin Spin Coupling

3,3′-N,N′-Bis(amino)-2,2′-bipyridine — An unusually methylation-resistant amine

2011 ◽  
Vol 89 (8) ◽  
pp. 971-977
Author(s):  
Danielle M. Chisholm ◽  
Robert McDonald ◽  
J. Scott McIndoe
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Complex Mixtures ◽  
Amino Groups ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen

Methylation of aromatic amino groups is usually straightforward, but the formation of two intramolecular hydrogen bonds in 3,3′-N,N′-bis(amino)-2,2′-bipyridine and (or) the potential for ring methylation prevents the clean tetramethylation of this molecule. Numerous attempts to make 3,3′-N,N′-bis(dimethylamino)-2,2′-bipyridine produced only complex mixtures of variously methylated products, and the only isolated molecule was 3,3′-N,N′-bis(methylamino)-2,2′-bipyridine, for which an X-ray crystal structure was obtained.

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