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Syntheses of highly fluorescent GFP-chromophore analogues
Wu, Liangxing,Burgess, Kevin
, p. 4089 - 4096 (2008/09/21)
Eight B-containing compounds, i.e., 1a-h, were prepared as mimics of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) fluorophore. The underlying concept was that synthetic GFP chromophore analogues are not fluorescent primarily because of free rotation about an aryl-alkene bond (Figure 1b). This rotation is not possible in the β-barrel of GFP; hence, the molecule is strongly fluorescent. In compounds 1a-h, radiationless decay via this mechanism is prevented by complexation of the BF2 entity. The target materials were prepared via two methods; most were obtained according to the novel route shown in Scheme 1b, but compound 1f was made via the procedure described in Scheme 2. Both syntheses involved formation of undesired compounds E-4a-h that formed simultaneously with the desired isomeric intermediates Z-4a-h. Both compounds form BF2 adducts, i.e., 1a-h and 5a-h, respectively. Methods used for spectroscopic characterization and differentiation of compounds in the series 1 and 5 are discussed, and these are supported by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses for compounds 1c, 5c, 1f, and 5f. Electronic spectra of compounds 1a-h and 5a-h were studied in detail. Those in the 5 series were shown to be only weakly fluorescent, but the 1 series were strongly fluorescent compounds (comparable to the boraindacene, BODIPY, dyes). Compounds 1g and 1h are water soluble, and 1h has particularly significant potential as a probe, since it also has a carboxylic acid group for attachment to biomolecules.
Structure-Reactivity Studies on the Equilibrium Reaction between Phenolate Ions and 2-Aryloxazolin-5-ones: Data Consistent with a Concerted Acyl-Group-Transfer Mechanism
Curran, Terence C,Farrar, Charles R.,Niazy, Omima,Williams, Andrew
, p. 6828 - 6837 (2007/10/02)
The rate and equilibrium constants for the reaction between phenolate anions and 2-aryloxazolin-5-ones have been measured as a function of the structures Ar and Ar'.The change in "effective" charge on both phenol-leaving oxygen and endocyclic oxygen from ground to transition state, as determined from the relevant Broensted parameters, is substantial and essentially additive consistent with a concerted displacement mechanism.The stepwise mechanism requires a small change in effective charge on the phenol oxygen because departure of phenolate ion from the tetrahedral intermediate cannot be rate limiting.Hydroxide ion attack on the C-5 atom of the oxazolinone to yield a benzoylglycine has a Hammett ?- dependence which can only arise from a concerted displacement; the rate-limiting step for the stepwise mechanism is the addition of hydroxide and the transition state of the rate-limiting step will therefore not involve much endocyclic C-O bond fission.An inverse deuterium oxide solvent isotope effect indicates that the observed general-acid catalysis has a specific-acid/nucleophilic mechanism; both hydroxide and oxonium ion catalysis are demonstrated by using 18O-labeling experiments to involve nucleophilic attack at the carbonyl (C-5) center.The equilibrium constant for reaction of azide ion with 2-phenyloxazolin-5-ones has been measured; it is suggested that the absence of racemization during azide coupling in peptide synthesis is related to the very unfavorable equilibrium constant for oxazolinone formation compared with that of activated oxygen esters.
