28022-06-2Relevant articles and documents
On the Fate of Biliverdin-IIIα-dimethyl Ester Formed by Scrambling During Syntheses of Biliverdin-IXα-dimethyl Ester from Bilirubin
Krois, Daniel,Lehner, Harald
, p. 575 - 580 (2007/10/02)
In the preparations of biliverdin-IXα-dimethyl ester (2b) from bilirubin-IXα (1) the ratio of the XIIIα- and IIIα-isomers 3b and 4b, formed via intermolecular scrambling, should be unity.However, irrespective of the synthetic variant considered, the amount of 4b obtained usually is exceptionally low.This is partly ascribed to a consecutive reaction of 4b in acidic methanol affording the chiral diastereomeric bridged biliverdins 5(a and b) and 6(a and b), respectively. - Keywords: Biliverdin-IIIα; Bridged biliverdins; Bilatrienes
CHIRAL INDUCTION IN BILIVERDIN COVALENTLY BOUND TO AMINO ACIDS
Haidl, Ewald,Krois, Daniel,Lehner, Harald
, p. 421 - 426 (2007/10/02)
Amidation of the carboxy groups of biliverdin-IXα (2) with the appropiate (S)-amino acid methyl ester yields the optically active derivatives (3)-(8) which exhibit exceedingly strong Cotton effects in their visible and near-u.v. absorption bands.This is due to theinfluence of the chiral centre on the population of helical conformers of the bilatriene moity across five bond lengths.The magnitude of the c.d. observed depends on the steric requirements of the amino acid and the polarity of the solvent.The chiral induction is interpreted in terms of intramolecular interactions of both side chains exerted from different sides of the bilatriene helix by hydrogen bonds.Both the donor and the acceptor sites of the amino acid residues are involved in the chiral association with the bilatriene backbone.