Kinetics and Mechanism of Cyclization of Substituted 2-(Benzoylamino)alkanamides in Strongly Basic Medium

1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš Sedlák ◽  
Jaromír Kaválek ◽  
Petr Mitaš ◽  
Vladimír Macháček

The cyclization reaction of substituted 2-(benzoylamino)alkanamides 1a-1i giving the corresponding substituted 2-phenylimidazol-4(5H)-ones 2a-2i has been studied. The equilibrium constants of reactions of compounds 1d-1f and 2-[(4-nitrobenzoyl)amino]-2,3-dimethylbutanenitrile (3) with methoxide have been determined in methanol-dimethyl sulfoxide media. For compound 1d and N-methyl derivatives 1a-1c, the cyclization rate constants have been measured in dependence on methoxide concentration in media of varying contents of dimethyl sulfoxide. The cyclization reaction mechanism involves formation of anion in a rapid pre-equilibrium and subsequent rate-limiting step: either formation of a cyclic intermediate or splitting off of OH- ion from this intermediate. The product formed in the given medium is immediately transformed into its conjugate base. A change in reaction medium affects the reactions of all the compounds in the same way. The ratio of concentration of substrate to that of its anion at low methoxide concentrations is affected by the solvent composition (MeOH-DMSO). At higher methoxide and DMSO concentrations the reaction rate distinctly decreases, which can be interpreted by the transformation of reactive anion into non-reactive dianion. The corresponding N-methylbenzoylamino compounds are cyclized faster by a factor of 400 as compared with compounds having no methyl group at the benzamide group.

1992 ◽  
Vol 262 (3) ◽  
pp. E344-E352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. A. Kim ◽  
M. T. King ◽  
W. E. Teague ◽  
G. A. Rufo ◽  
R. L. Veech ◽  
...  

The regulation of purine metabolism in rat liver has been examined under conditions that alter the flux through the pathway. Rats were given intraperitoneal injections of ethanol, sodium acetate, or sodium phosphate to attain body water concentrations of approximately 70, 20, and 10 mM, respectively. The livers were freeze-clamped after 30 min, and extracts were made for the analysis of metabolites, cofactors, purine bases, and nucleosides; homogenates were made for the measurement of the activities and kinetic parameters of seven enzymes that participate in purine salvage. The values of the equilibrium constants of nine reactions were determined in vitro and compared with the ratios of the reactants measured in liver. The changes in phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PRPP), a key intermediate in both the de novo and salvage pathways of purine metabolism, were directly correlated with the changes in ribose 5-phosphate (ribose-5-P); ([PRPP] = 1.7[ribose-5-P] - 7.4 mumol/kg). Ribose-5-P concentrations in turn could be predicted from the liver content of fructose 6-phosphate and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate by calculation from the known equilibria. The maximum velocities in the tissue of the seven enzymes measured were calculated from the measured substrate values in the liver and with consideration of other effectors of enzyme activity. PRPP synthetase was the least active of the enzymes measured, indicating a possible rate-limiting step. The delta G of the enzyme steps differed from equilibrium values by factors ranging from 4 (nucleoside phosphorylase) to 10(5) (PRPP synthetase and purine transferase reactions). The regulation of purine salvage appeared to depend on the levels of PRPP and ribose-5-P.


1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1453-1459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaromír Kaválek ◽  
Ahmad Ashfaq ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba

Rate constants have been determined of nucleophilic aromatic substitution of 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl methyl ether (Ia), 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl ethanoate (Ic), 2,4,6-trinitrochlorobenzene (Ib), 2,4,6-trinitrodiphenyl ether (Id), 2,4,6-trinitro-4'-bromodiphenyl ether (Ie), 2,3',4,6-tetranitrodiphenyl ether (If) and 2,4,4',6-tetranitrodiphenyl ether (Ig) with methoxide, ethanoate and methyl cyanoethanoate (II) anions in methanol. For the compounds Ia,b rate and equilibrium constants of addition of the anion II(-) at positions 3 and 5 have been measured, too. In reactions of the compounds Ia to Ig with ethanoate anion the first (rate-limiting) step produces the phenyl ester Ic which reacts with a further ethanoate anion to give 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (Ih) and ethanoic anhydride. In reactions of the bromo derivative Ie and, to a still larger extent, compound Id the methyl derivative Ia is formed besides the compound Ih.


1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1216-1222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Klicnar ◽  
Jaromír Mindl ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba

The cyclization reaction kinetics of phenylglyoxal monohydrate with 1,2-diaminobenzene have been studied in formate, acetate, and phosphate buffers. At high pH values and low buffer concentrations the rate-limiting step consists in the protonation of the intermediate formed by addition of the first amino group to aldehydic group of phenylglyoxal. With increasing concentrations of formate and acetate buffers the rate-limiting step shifts to the formation of the intermediate. In phosphate buffers the catalysis by the basic buffer component makes itself felt, too. At higher concentrations of 1,2-diaminobenzene, the dehydration of phenylglyoxal monohydrate gradually becomes the rate-limiting step.


1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaromír Kaválek ◽  
Josef Jirman ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba

Rate constants of base-catalyzed methanolysis and dissociation constants in methanol have been determined for benzoylthiourea (II), 1,3-diacetylthiourea (III), 1,3-dibenzoylthiourea (IV), and 1-acetyl-3-benzoylthiourea (V). With the diacyl derivatives III and IV, the reaction of methoxide ion with the neutral substrate is accompanied by that of methoxide with the substrate anion (at higher alkoxide concentrations). Above 0.1 mol l-1 CH3O(-), the rate constants are also affected by medium. The rate of the reaction of neutral diacyl derivative is decreased, and that of the reaction of methoxide with the substrate anion is rapidly increased. The dissociation constant of II is higher than that of acetylthiourea (I) by about one order of magnitude, but the attack of methoxide on the carbonyl group of II is about three times slower than that in I. The benzoyl group at the N1 nitrogen exhibits a greater activating influence (in both the rate and the equilibrium constants) on the other NHCOR group than the acetyl group does. With V the ratio of methanolysis rate constants is 9 : 1 in favour of the acetyl group. The reaction of diacetyl derivative III with 1-butanamine has been followed in butanamine buffers. At the lowest butanamine concentrations, the reaction is second order in the amine, and the rate-limiting step is the proton transfer from the intermediate to the second amine molecule. At the highest butanamine concentrations the reaction becomes first order in the amine, and the rate-limiting step changes to the attack of butanamine on the carbonyl group of diacetyl derivative III.


2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeshi Zhang ◽  
Jacques Buffle ◽  
Konstantin Startchev ◽  
Davide Alemani

Environmental context. Until now there was no user-friendly code for metal flux computations in natural mixtures of aquatic complexants, which are however essential for prediction of metal bioavailability. The present paper describes the capabilities and limitations of one of the only two such codes presently available, called FLUXY. The results of FLUXY are compared with those of another code, and it is shown that it enables quick computation and is applicable to natural ligands under many environmental conditions. Abstract. The computation of metal fluxes at consuming interfaces like microorganisms or bioanalogical sensors is of great importance in ecotoxicology. The present paper describes the application of a simple code, FLUXY, for the computation of steady-state metal fluxes in the presence of a very large number of complexes, with broadly varying values of equilibrium constants, rate constants and diffusion coefficients. This code includes two major limiting assumptions, namely, (i) the existence of excess of ligand (L) compared with metal (M), and (ii) the fact that in a series of successive MLn complexes, the reaction is the rate-limiting step in flux computation. The domains of rate constants for which these assumptions are valid are tested systematically, and the corresponding errors are evaluated by comparison with the exact results given by another code: MHEDYN. FLUXY is then applied and compared with MHEDYN for case studies typical of aquatic systems, namely (i) a culture medium containing simple ligands; (ii) solutions of fulvic compounds including a broad distribution of complex stability and rate constants; and (iii) suspensions of aggregates with a broad size distribution. It is shown that FLUXY gives good results for cases (i) and (iii). Application to case (ii) (fulvic compounds) is also feasible under conditions that are clearly described. Altogether, FLUXY and MHEDYN are complementary. In particular, FLUXY only computes steady-state fluxes and requires the fulfilment of a few conditions, but when these are met, computations require much less computer time than MHEDYN.


1997 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 1429-1445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Janík ◽  
Vladimír Macháček ◽  
Oldřich Pytela

The cyclization kinetics of methyl S-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)mercaptoacetate to 2-methoxycarbonyl-5,7-dinitrobenzo[d]thiazol-3-oxide have been studied in acetate, methoxyacetate or N-methylmorpholine buffers. In the acetate and methoxyacetate buffers, the cyclization obeys the rate equation v = [SH](k'MeO[CH3O-] + k'B[B-] + k'B,MeO[B-][CH3O-]) and goes by two reaction paths differing in the order of their reaction steps, the splitting off of the proton from C-H group being the rate-limiting step in either path. In the N-methylmorpholine buffers, increasing concentration of the base results in gradual decrease of reaction order in the base and change in the rate-limiting step of cyclization. Methyl S-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)mercaptoacetate undergoes cyclization neither in the given buffers nor in methoxide solution.


1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-161
Author(s):  
Jaromír Mindl ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba

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.


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