Recommendations for measuring second-order rate constants and kinetic solvent isotope effects on acid-catalyzed reactions

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Jensen ◽  
Michael D. Carr ◽  
Kenneth S. Yamaguchi
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (14) ◽  
pp. 7394
Author(s):  
Kyoung Ho Park ◽  
Mi Hye Seong ◽  
Jin Burm Kyong ◽  
Dennis N. Kevill

A study was carried out on the solvolysis of 1-adamantyl chlorothioformate (1-AdSCOCl, 1) in hydroxylic solvents. The rate constants of the solvolysis of 1 were well correlated using the Grunwald–Winstein equation in all of the 20 solvents (R = 0.985). The solvolyses of 1 were analyzed as the following two competing reactions: the solvolysis ionization pathway through the intermediate (1-AdSCO)+ (carboxylium ion) stabilized by the loss of chloride ions due to nucleophilic solvation and the solvolysis–decomposition pathway through the intermediate 1-Ad+Cl− ion pairs (carbocation) with the loss of carbonyl sulfide. In addition, the rate constants (kexp) for the solvolysis of 1 were separated into k1-Ad+Cl− and k1-AdSCO+Cl− through a product study and applied to the Grunwald–Winstein equation to obtain the sensitivity (m-value) to change in solvent ionizing power. For binary hydroxylic solvents, the selectivities (S) for the formation of solvolysis products were very similar to those of the 1-adamantyl derivatives discussed previously. The kinetic solvent isotope effects (KSIEs), salt effects and activation parameters for the solvolyses of 1 were also determined. These observations are compared with those previously reported for the solvolyses of 1-adamantyl chloroformate (1-AdOCOCl, 2). The reasons for change in reaction channels are discussed in terms of the gas-phase stabilities of acylium ions calculated using Gaussian 03.


2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-515
Author(s):  
John Andraos ◽  
A Jerry Kresge

Rates of hydration of a number of ketenes were measured in neutral and basic solution using flash photolytic techniques, and rate constants for their uncatalyzed, kuc, and hydroxide-ion catalyzed, kHO, reactions were determined. These results, plus additional data from the literature, were found to provide the remarkably good correlation log kuc = -3.21 + 1.14 log kHO, which spans 10 orders of magnitude in reactivity and includes 31 ketenes. This good correlation implies that uncatalyzed and hydroxide-ion catalyzed ketene hydraton occur by similar reaction mechanisms, which for the hydroxide-ion catalyzed process is known to involve nucleophilic attack on the carbonyl carbon atom of the ketene. Rate constants for phenylhydroxyketene, on the other hand, do not fit this correlation, which suggests that the mechanistic assignment upon which these rate constants are based may not be correct. Solvent isotope effects on these uncatalyzed ketene hydrations are weak; most are less than kH/kD = 2. It is argued that these isotope effects are largely, if not entirely, secondary in nature and that they are consistent with both a reaction mechanism in which nucleophlic attack of a single water molecule on the ketene carbonyl carbon atom produces a zwitterionic intermediate and also a mechanism that avoids this intermediate by passing through a cyclic transition state involving several water molecules.Key words: ketene hydration, rate correlation, nucleophilic attack, solvent isotope effects, phenylhydroxyketene.


1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 1696-1700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kurzawa ◽  
Kenneth T. Leffek

The second-order rate constants have been determined for the β-elimination reactions of 2,2-di-(p-nitrophenyl)-1,1,1-trifluoroethane, 2,2-di-(p-nitrophenyl)-1-fluoroethane, and their β-deuterated analogues with sodium methoxide in methanol. The primary isotope effects and activation parameters for these reactions are reported. It is suggested that the trifluoro-compound reacts via the pre-equilibrium carbanion mechanism (ElcB)R and that the monofluoro compound follows the E2 mechanism via a carbanion-like transition state.


Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 1933
Author(s):  
Patrick L. Fernandez ◽  
Andrew S. Murkin

Solvent isotope effects have long been used as a mechanistic tool for determining enzyme mechanisms. Most commonly, macroscopic rate constants such as kcat and kcat/Km are found to decrease when the reaction is performed in D2O for a variety of reasons including the transfer of protons. Under certain circumstances, these constants are found to increase, in what is termed an inverse solvent kinetic isotope effect (SKIE), which can be a diagnostic mechanistic feature. Generally, these phenomena can be attributed to an inverse solvent equilibrium isotope effect on a rapid equilibrium preceding the rate-limiting step(s). This review surveys inverse SKIEs in enzyme-catalyzed reactions by assessing their underlying origins in common mechanistic themes. Case studies for each category are presented, and the mechanistic implications are put into context. It is hoped that readers may find the illustrative examples valuable in planning and interpreting solvent isotope effect experiments.


1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Bunting ◽  
Norman P. Fitzgerald

The reduction of a series of 3-W-1-methylquinolinium cations (1: W = H, Br, CONH2, CO2CH3, CN, NO2) by 1-benzyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide has been investigated. In all cases the kinetically controlled product from these reactions is the appropriate 3-W-1,4-dihydro-1-methylquinoline. Only for W = Br is any significant amount of the 1,2-dihydro isomer obtained (15% in this case). This kinetic preference for C-4 attack over C-2 attack in dihydronicotinamide reductions contrasts with the kinetically preferred attack at C-2 by hydroxide ion and in borohydride reductions. Rates of reduction were measured for each 1 and also 1,2-dimethyl- and 1,4-dimethylquinolinium cations in 20% CH3CN – 80% H2O, ionic strength 1.0 at 25 °C, under pseudo-first-order conditions. Kinetic saturation due to nonproductive 1:1 complex formation was observed for several cations at high concentrations (> 0.1 M). Second-order rate constants [Formula: see text] were evaluated for each W, and also kinetic isotope effects from second-order rate constants [Formula: see text] for reduction by 1-benzyl-4,4-dideuterio-1,4-dihydronicotinamide. Second-order rate constants are correlated with σp− for W with ρ = 4.5, and are also closely correlated with [Formula: see text] for pseudobase formation at C-4 of these quinolinium cations by: [Formula: see text]. Values of [Formula: see text] vs. [Formula: see text] describe a Westheimer curve reaching a maximum of 5.8 for W = Br and falling to 1.5 for W = NO2 and 4.2 for W = H. These data are consistent with an intrinsic barrier of 2.9 ± 0.5 kcal/mol for hydride transfer between this 1,4-dihydronicotinamide and quinolinium cations. However, quinolinium cations display a dramatically enhanced rate of dihydronicotinamide reduction relative to hydroxide ion attack when compared with isoquinolinium cations. This observation, and the predominance of C-4 rather than C-2 reduction, suggests that these reactions may not be simple one-step hydride transfer processes.


1988 ◽  
Vol 60 (02) ◽  
pp. 247-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
H R Lijnen ◽  
L Nelles ◽  
B Van Hoef ◽  
F De Cock ◽  
D Collen

SummaryRecombinant chimaeric molecules between tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) and single chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator (scu-PA) or two chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator (tcu-PA) have intact enzymatic properties of scu-PA or tcu-PA towards natural and synthetic substrates (Nelles et al., J Biol Chem 1987; 262: 10855-10862). In the present study, we have compared the reactivity with inhibitors of both the single chain and two chain variants of recombinant u-PA and two recombinant chimaeric molecules between t-PA and scu-PA (t-PA/u-PA-s: amino acids 1-263 of t-PA and 144-411 of u-PA; t-PA/u-PA-e: amino acids 1-274 of t-PA and 138-411 of u-PA). Incubation with human plasma in the absence of a fibrin clot for 3 h at 37° C at equipotent concentrations (50% clot lysis in 2 h), resulted in significant fibrinogen breakdown (to about 40% of the normal value) for all two chain molecules, but not for their single chain counterparts. Preincubation of the plasminogen activators with plasma for 3 h at 37° C, resulted in complete inhibition of the fibrinolytic potency of the two chain molecules but did not alter the potency of the single chain molecules. Inhibition of the two chain molecules occurred with a t½ of approximately 45 min. The two chain variants were inhibited by the synthetic urokinase inhibitor Glu-Gly-Arg-CH2CCl with apparent second-order rate constants of 8,000-10,000 M−1s−1, by purified α2-antiplasmin with second-order rate constants of about 300 M−1s−1, and by plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) with second-order rate constants of approximately 2 × 107 M−1s−1.It is concluded that the reactivity of single chain and two chain forms of t-PA/u-PA chimaers with inhibitors is very similar to that of the single and two chain forms of intact u-PA.


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