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Mechanism of Hydrolysis of O-Imidomethyl Derivatives of Phenols
Getz, John J.,Prankerd, Richard J.,Sloan, Kenneth B.
, p. 4913 - 4918 (2007/10/02)
Three series of O-imidomethyl derivatives of para-substituted phenolic compounds were synthesized and their rates of hydrolysis were studied.Saccharin, phthalimide, and succinimide served as the imide portions of the derivatives.Their rates of hydrolysis were found to be first order with respect to hydroxide from pH 7.0 to 10 or 11 and dependent on the acidity (leaving group potential) of both the imide and the phenol portions.The more acidic the imide or the phenol, the faster the rate of hydrolysis.However, the rates of hydrolysis were more sensitive to the acidity of the phenol.Trapping experiments with cyanide also suggested that the phenol anion was functioning as the leaving group in what is apparently an SN2 reaction.An amide derivative was found to hydrolyze more slowly than predicted from the analogous series and the pKa of the amide.This result is apparently due partially stereoelectronic constraints in the imide series that cause the CH2-O bond to be oriented more nearly perpendicular to the plane of the C(=O)N group and hence more accessible to nucleophilic attack.
Prodrugs of biologically active hydroxyaromatic compounds
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, (2008/06/13)
Prodrugs of bio-active hydroxyaromatic drugs having the structural formula: A pharmaceutically acceptable prodrug of a biologically active, therapeutically effective hydroxyaromatic drug, said prodrug being selected from the group consisting of, (A) compounds having the structural formula: wherein: DRUG --O-- is the hydroxyaromatic O-dehydro residue of said drug; R' and R' may be the same or different and may be H, alkyl, aryl or electron withdrawing groups; Z is a displaceable leaving group; and n is an integer in the range of from 1 to 3, and (B) pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
