464-07-3Relevant articles and documents
Biomimetic ketone reduction by disulfide radical anion
Barata-Vallejo, Sebastian,Bobrowski, Krzysztof,Chatgilialoglu, Chryssostomos,Ferreri, Carla,Marciniak, Bronislaw,Skotnicki, Konrad
, (2021/09/13)
The conversion of ribonucleosides to 2′-deoxyribonucleosides is catalyzed by ribonucleoside reductase enzymes in nature. One of the key steps in this complex radical mechanism is the reduction of the 3′-ketodeoxynucleotide by a pair of cysteine residues, providing the electrons via a disulfide radical anion (RSSR??) in the active site of the enzyme. In the present study, the bioinspired conversion of ketones to corresponding alcohols was achieved by the intermediacy of disulfide radical anion of cysteine (CysSSCys)?? in water. High concentration of cysteine and pH 10.6 are necessary for high-yielding reactions. The photoinitiated radical chain reaction includes the one-electron reduction of carbonyl moiety by disulfide radical anion, protonation of the resulting ketyl radical anion by water, and H-atom abstraction from CysSH. The (CysSSCys)?? transient species generated by ionizing radiation in aqueous solutions allowed the measurement of kinetic data with ketones by pulse radiolysis. By measuring the rate of the decay of (CysSSCys)?? at λmax = 420 nm at various concentrations of ketones, we found the rate constants of three cyclic ketones to be in the range of 104–105 M?1s?1 at ~22?C.
1,3,4-Oxadiazole-functionalizedα-amino-phosphonates as ligands for the ruthenium-catalyzed reduction of ketones
Hkiri, Shaima,Gourlaouen, Christophe,Touil, Soufiane,Samarat, Ali,Sémeril, David
, p. 11327 - 11335 (2021/07/02)
Threeα-aminophosphonates, namely diethyl[(5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-ylamino)(4-trifluoromethylphenyl) methyl]phosphonate (3a), diethyl[(5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-ylamino)(2-methoxyphenyl)methyl]phosphonate (3b) and diethyl[(5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-ylamino)(4-nitrophenyl)methyl]phosphonate (3c), were synthetizedviathe Pudovik-type reaction between diethyl phosphite and imines, obtained from 5-phenyl-1,2,4-oxadiazol-2-amine and aromatic aldehydes, under microwave irradiation. Compounds3a-cunderwent complexation with a ruthenium(ii) precursor, selectively at the more basic nitrogen atom of the oxadiazole ring, leading to the corresponding ruthenium complexes4a-cof the formula [RuCl2(L)(p-cymene)] (L= α-aminophosphonates3a-c). Complexes4a-cproved to be efficient catalysts for the transfer hydrogenation of ketones to alcohols. All new compounds were fully characterised by elemental analysis, infrared, mass and NMR spectroscopy. An X-ray structure of the α-aminophosphonate3bwas obtained and revealed the presence, in the solid state, of an infinite chain of3bunits supramolecularly interlinked. Two X-ray diffraction studies carried out on ruthenium complexes confirm the specific coordination of the electron-enricher nitrogen atom of the oxadiazole ring.
Ligand Effect in Alkali-Metal-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones
Alshakova, Iryna D.,Dudding, Travis,Foy, Hayden C.,Nikonov, Georgii I.
supporting information, (2019/08/21)
This work unveils the reactivity patterns, as well as ligand and additive effect on alkali-metal-base-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of ketones. Crucially to this reactivity is the presence of a Lewis acid (alkali cation), as opposed to a simple base effect. With aryl ketones, the observed reactivity order is Na+>Li+>K+, whereas for aliphatic substrates it follows the expected Lewis acidity, Li+>Na+>K+. Importantly, the reactivity pattern can be drastically changed by adding ligands and additives. Kinetic, labelling, and competition experiments as well as DFT calculations suggested that the reaction proceeds through a concerted direct hydride-transfer mechanism, originally suggested by Woodward. The lithium cation was found to be intrinsically more active than heavier congeners, but in the case of aryl ketones a decrease in reaction rate was observed at ≈40 percent conversion with lithium cations. Noncovalent-interaction analysis revealed that this deceleration effect originated from specific noncovalent interactions between the aryl moiety of 1-phenylethanol and the carbonyl group of acetophenone, which stabilize the product in the coordination sphere of lithium and thus poison the catalyst. The ligand/additive effect is a complicated phenomenon that includes a combination of several factors, such as the decrease of activation energy by ligation (confirmed by distortion/interaction calculations of N,N,N’,N’-tetramethylethylenediamine, TMEDA) and the change in relative stabilization of reagents and substrates in the solution and the coordination sphere of the metal. Finally, we observed that lithium-base-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation can be further facilitated by the addition of an inexpensive and benign reagent, LiCl, which likely operates by re-initiating the reaction on a new lithium center.
