scholarly journals Optical Rotatory Power ofl-Menthol in Heavy Methyl Alcohol

1937 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 545-546
Author(s):  
Eijiro Ogawa
Keyword(s):  
Methyl Alcohol ◽  
Rotatory Power ◽  
Optical Rotatory ◽  
Optical Rotatory Power

Polarimetric and nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the complexation of mercury by thiols

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (12) ◽  
pp. 3184-3189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed M. Shoukry ◽  
Bruce V. Cheesman ◽  
Dallas L. Rabenstein
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Formation Constant ◽  
Ph Dependence ◽  
Equilibrium Constants ◽  
Rotatory Power ◽  
Acid Dissociation ◽  
Optical Rotatory ◽  
Optical Rotatory Power ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

The complexation of Hg(II) by glutathione has been studied by polarimetry under conditions of excess ligand with the objective of characterizing formation of the 3:1 complex, Hg(glutathione)3. The optical rotatory power of solutions containing glutathione only and of solutions containing glutathione and Hg(II) at ratios of 2:1, 2.5:1, 3:1, and 4:1 was measured as a function of pH. Acid dissociation constants for the ammonium and thiol groups of glutathione and for the two ammonium groups of Hg(glutathione)2 and the formation constant of the 3:1 complex (Hg(glutathione)2 + glutathione [Formula: see text] Hg(glutathione)3) were determined from the pH dependence of the optical rotatory power. The value obtained for the formation constant, Kf = 1.5 × 103, indicates that binding of the third ligand to form Hg(glutathione)3 is much weaker than binding of the first two glutathione ligands. However, calculations indicate that binding is sufficiently strong that a significant fraction of Hg(II) is present as Hg(glutathione)3 under physiological conditions. Equilibrium constants were also determined by polarimetry and by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance for the displacement of one thiolate ligand by another (RSHgSR + R′SH [Formula: see text] RSHgSR′ + RSH; RSHgSR′ + R′SH [Formula: see text] R′SHgSR′ + RSH). The results indicate that, at pH 5.5 and at physiological pH, the relative stability increases in the order Hg(glutathione)2 < Hg(penicillamine)2 < Hg(mercaptoethylamine) 2. However, when competitive protonation of free ligand is accounted for, it is shown that the intrinsic stability of the complexes increases in the order Hg(penicillamine)2 < Hg(mercaptoethylamine)2 < Hg(glutathione)2, which parallels the order of the Brønsted basicity of the thiolate ligands.

scholarly journals Optical rotatory power. I—A theoretical calculation for a molecule containing only isotropic refractive centres

1934 ◽  
Vol 144 (853) ◽  
pp. 655-675 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Calculation ◽  
Optical Activity ◽  
Chemical Structure ◽  
Central Atom ◽  
Optical Rotation ◽  
Rotatory Power ◽  
Theoretical Formula ◽  
Optical Rotatory ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
Optical Rotatory Power

Ever since the time of van’t Hoff and Le Bel the number investigations dependent on optical activity, or attempting to elucidate optical activity, has been very great, and it is remarkable that, even at the present time, there is no theoretical formula which gives the relation between the magnitude of the rotation and the chemical structure of the molecule concerned. The present communication supplies this want with regard to the molecule of the simplest asymmetric type: the molecule with four different groups attached to one central atom. Various special hypothese have been postulated to explain optical activity, but a few investigators have shown quite definitely that there is no necessity for any of these hypotheses. Born* and Oseen have shown independently that, if the molecule has a dissymmetric structure, the ordinary refractive properties of the atoms will account for an optical rotation. Gray* and de Mallemann have attempted calculations of formulæ for optical retatory power on this basis. However, it has not been possible to condense the numerous algebraic terms which occur in these calculaations into a compact form.

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