Reactions of thiourea with chloro- and bromoacetic acids

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaromír Kaválek ◽  
Said El-Bahaie ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba
Keyword(s):  
Chloroacetic Acid ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Salt Formation ◽  
Sulphur Atom ◽  
Bromoacetic Acid ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Rate Limiting

The reaction of chloroacetic acid with thiourea represents an SN2 substitution of chlorine by sulphur atom and is about two orders of magnitude slower than that of bromoacetic acid. Chloroacetate ion reacts slower than chloroacetic acid only about 30%. The acid catalyzed splitting off of hydroxyl group from the formed tetrahedral intermediate is rate-limiting in the cyclization of the S-carboxylatomethyleneisothiouronium salt, formation of the intermediate being rate-limiting below pH 2.

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.

Mechanism of base-catalyzed cyclization of ethyl N-(substituted aminocarbonyl)glycinates

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-161
Author(s):  
Jaromír Mindl ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba
Keyword(s):  
Rate Constants ◽  
Ethoxy Group ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Rate Limiting Step ◽  
Limiting Step ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Cyclization Rate ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Cyclic Intermediate

The cyclization rate constants have been measured of substituted ethyl N-(phenylaminocarbonyl)-, N-(alkylaminocarbonyl)-, and N-(phenylaminothiocarbonyl)glycinates RNHCXNHCH2CO2.C2H5 (X = O, S). Logarithms of these constants increase with decreasing basicity of the amines down to the value of pKa(RNH2) = 5.5. The rate-limiting step of the reaction is formation of the tetrahedral intermediate. With ethyl N-(phenylaminocarbonyl)glycinates (whose pKa(RNH2) values are higher) this dependence, on the contrary, slightly decreases, and the acid-catalyzed splitting off of ethoxy group from the cyclic intermediate becomes rate-limiting. The cyclization rate of a series of ethyl N-(phenylaminothiocarbonyl)glycinates is practically independent of the pKa(RNH2) values, the change in the rate-limiting step would take place at pH about 9.

Kinetics of cyclization of S-ethoxycarbonylmethylisothiouronium chloride to 2-imino-4-thiazolidone

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 912-917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Macháček ◽  
Said A. El-bahai ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba
Keyword(s):  
Hydrochloric Acid ◽  
Dilute Hydrochloric Acid ◽  
Base Catalysis ◽  
General Base ◽  
Rate Limiting Step ◽  
Limiting Step ◽  
Kinetics Of Formation ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Kinetics Of

Kinetics of formation of 2-imino-4-thiazolidone from S-ethoxycarbonylmethylisothiouronium chloride has been studied in aqueous buffers and dilute hydrochloric acid. The reaction is subject to general base catalysis, the β value being 0.65. Its rate limiting step consists in acid-catalyzed splitting off of ethoxide ion from dipolar tetrahedral intermediate. At pH < 2 formation of this intermediate becomes rate-limiting; rate constant of its formation is 2 . 104 s-1.

High field 1H NMR Studies of Sol-Gel Kinetics

1986 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce D. Kay ◽  
Roger A. Assink
Keyword(s):  
Equilibrium Distribution ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Nmr Studies ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Rate Limiting Step ◽  
Rate Of Hydrolysis ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Product Species ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Kinetics Of

ABSTRACTHigh resolution 1H NMR spectroscopy at high magnetic fields is employed to study the reaction kinetics of the Si(OCH3)4:CH3OH:H2O sol-gel system. Both the overall extent of reaction as a function of time and the equilibrium distribution of species are measured. In acid catalyzed solution, condensation is the rate limiting step while in base catalyzed solution, hydrolysis becomes rate limiting. A kinetic model in which the rate of hydrolysis is assumed to be independent of the adjacent functional groups is presented. This model correctly predicts the distribution of product species during the initial stages of the sol-gel reaction.

scholarly journals Substrate specificity of sheep liver sorbitol dehydrogenase

1998 ◽  
Vol 330 (1) ◽  
pp. 479-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Rune LINDSTAD ◽  
Peter KÖLL ◽  
John S. McKINLEY-McKEE
Keyword(s):  
Substrate Specificity ◽  
Ternary Complex ◽  
Kinetic Mechanism ◽  
Sorbitol Dehydrogenase ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Enzyme Active Site ◽  
Sheep Liver ◽  
Rate Limiting Step ◽  
Steady State Kinetics ◽  
Rate Limiting

The substrate specificity of sheep liver sorbitol dehydrogenase has been studied by steady-state kinetics over the range pH 7-10. Sorbitol dehydrogenase stereo-selectively catalyses the reversible NAD-linked oxidation of various polyols and other secondary alcohols into their corresponding ketones. The kinetic constants are given for various novel polyol substrates, including L-glucitol, L-mannitol, L-altritol, D-altritol, D-iditol and eight heptitols, as well as for many aliphatic and aromatic alcohols. The maximum velocities (kcat) and the substrate specificity-constants (kcat/Km) are positively correlated with increasing pH. The enzyme-catalysed reactions occur by a compulsory ordered kinetic mechanism with the coenzyme as the first, or leading, substrate. With many substrates, the rate-limiting step for the overall reaction is the enzyme-NADH product dissociation. However, with several substrates there is a transition to a mechanism with partial rate-limitation at the ternary complex level, especially at low pH. The kinetic data enable the elucidation of new empirical rules for the substrate specificity of sorbitol dehydrogenase. The specificity-constants for polyol oxidation vary as a function of substrate configuration with D-xylo > d-ribo > L-xylo > d-lyxo ≈ l-arabino > D-arabino > l-lyxo. Catalytic activity with a polyol or an aromatic substrate and various 1-deoxy derivatives thereof varies with -CH2OH >-CH2NH2 >-CH2OCH3 ≈-CH3. The presence of a hydroxyl group at each of the remaining chiral centres of a polyol, apart from the reactive C2, is also nonessential for productive ternary complex formation and catalysis. A predominantly nonpolar enzymic epitope appears to constitute an important structural determinant for the substrate specificity of sorbitol dehydrogenase. The existence of two distinct substrate binding regions in the enzyme active site, along with that of the catalytic zinc, is suggested to account for the lack of stereospecificity at C2 in some polyols.

Effect of Medium on Acid-Catalyzed Decomposition of N-(Phenylazo)-Substituted Nitrogen Heterocycles

1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 1654-1672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Ludwig ◽  
Iva Bednářová ◽  
Patrik Pařík
Keyword(s):  
Rate Constant ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Catalyst Particle ◽  
Pivalic Acid ◽  
Linear Regression Method ◽  
Catalytic Rate Constant ◽  
Rate Limiting Step ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Kinetics Of

Four N-(phenylazo)-substituted saturated nitrogen heterocyclics were synthesized and their structure was confirmed by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. The kinetics of their acid-catalyzed decomposition were studied at various concentrations of the catalyst (pivalic acid) in 40, 30, and 20% (v/v) aqueous ethanol at 25 °C. The values obtained for the observed rate constants were processed by the non-linear regression method according to the suggested kinetic models and by the method of principal component analysis (PCA). The interpretation of the results has shown that the acid-catalyzed decomposition of the heterocyclics under the conditions used proceeds by the mechanism of general acid catalysis, the proton being the dominant catalyst particle of the rate-limiting step. The decrease in the observed rate constant at higher concentrations of the catalyst was explained by the formation of a non-reactive complex composed of the undissociated acid and the respective N-(phenylazo)heterocycle. The effect of medium and steric effect of the heterocyclic moiety on the values of catalytic rate constant are discussed.

THE EPIMERIZATION OF DELCOSINE

1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 1579-1587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinko Skarić ◽  
Léo Marion
Keyword(s):  
Infrared Spectra ◽  
Potassium Hydroxide ◽  
Methoxyl Group ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Sodium Amalgam ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Nitrogen Ring

Delcosine has been assigned tentatively the same C—N skeleton as lycoctonine. In lycoctonine, ring A carries at C-1 a methoxyl group which is directed away from the nitrogen ring. In delcosine, C-1 carries a hydroxyl group which has the opposite configuration and is directed towards the nitrogen. An attempt to correlate the two structures first involves epimerization at C-1 in delcosine. This has been carried out by oxidation of desethyldelcosine to an azomethine, the ethiodide of which, by the action of methanolic potassium hydroxide, is converted to oxo-1-epidelcosine in two steps. Oxo-1-epidelcosine in an acid-catalyzed rearrangement is transformed to a pinacone which, after methylation, gives O,O-dimethyl-anhydro-oxo-1-epidelcosine. This compound was compared with O-methylanhydro-oxolycoctonine, prepared from oxolycoctonine, but was not identical. Removal of a methoxyl, which in each compound is ortho to a carbonyl, by the action of sodium amalgam, produced O,O-dimethyl-6-desmethoxy-anhydro-oxo-1-epidelcosine and O-methyl-6-desmethoxy-anhydro-oxolycoctonine, which are not identical, but show in their infrared spectra much less dissimilarity than the spectra of the pair of compounds from which they were derived. These results are discussed in terms of the structure of delcosine.

scholarly journals The mechanism of the hydrolysis of acylimidazoles in aqueous mineral acids. The excess acidity method for reactions that are not acid catalyzed

1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (8) ◽  
pp. 1093-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Imidazole Ring ◽  
Carbonyl Oxygen ◽  
Pseudo First Order Reaction ◽  
Acid Media ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Reaction Rate Constants ◽  
Rate Determining Step ◽  
Reversible Addition ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

The mechanism of the hydrolysis of acetylimidazole in aqueous perchloric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric acid mixtures has been determined. Benzoylimidazole was also studied in the latter two acids. The method of analyzing the available data, pseudo-first-order reaction rate constants as a function of acid concentration and, in one case, temperature, is the excess acidity method, here applied to the same reaction in the three different acid media, allowing their comparison. The reaction is not acid catalyzed; the rates decrease with increasing acidity. The substrate reacts in the form that is monoprotonated on the imidazole ring; it is 100% protonated at acidities much lower than those used here. Acetylimidazole is shown to become diprotonated at high acidity [Formula: see text], protonating on the carbonyl oxygen, but the diprotonated form is not reactive. The hydrolysis involves the reversible addition of one water molecule to the substrate to give a tetrahedral intermediate; at low acidities the decomposition of this hydrate is the rate-determining step, but as the acidity increases and the water activity decreases its formation becomes rate limiting. Hydroxide catalysis was also observed in dilute perchloric acid, but this is swamped by nucleophilic catalysis by the acid anion in HCl and H2SO4. Keywords: acylimidazoles, excess acidity, hydrolysis, protonation, tetrahedral intermediate.

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