Issue 2, 1994

Models for enzyme-catalysed phosphate transfer: comparisons of reactivity towards a neighbouring hydroxy group for phosphodiester anions and acids. General base catalysis of the cyclisation of a hydroxyalkyl phosphate triester

Abstract

Methylation of phenyl 1,2-isopropylidene-β-D-xylofuranose 3′-phosphate increases the rate of intramolecular cyclisation by a factor of over 105. This confirms previous estimates of the effect of protonation on the reactivity of phosphate diesters towards a neighbouring hydroxy group, which depend on the correct assignment of kinetically equivalent mechanisms, and makes available reliable data on the magnitude of the effect for reactions catalysed by a range of general acids and bases. General base catalysis is characterised for the intramolecular cyclisation of one diastereoisomer (7b) of methyl phenyl 1,2-isopropylidene-β-D-xylofuranose 3′-phosphate triester: the Brønsted β is 0.65 and catalysis is enhanced by the proximity of the positive centres of suitable diamine monocations.

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J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1994, 327-333

Models for enzyme-catalysed phosphate transfer: comparisons of reactivity towards a neighbouring hydroxy group for phosphodiester anions and acids. General base catalysis of the cyclisation of a hydroxyalkyl phosphate triester

A. J. Chandler, F. Hollfelder, A. J. Kirby, F. O'Carroll and R. Strömberg, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1994, 327 DOI: 10.1039/P29940000327

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