MECHANISM AND CATALYSIS OF REACTIONS OF ACYL PPHOSPHATES .1. NUCLEOPHILIC REACTIONS
MECHANISM AND CATALYSIS OF REACTIONS OF ACYL PPHOSPHATES .1. NUCLEOPHILIC REACTIONS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01482a024
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发表时间:
1961-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
JENCKS, WP
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作者:
DISABATO, G;JENCKS, WP
Acyl transferreactions from acetyl phosphate to ro-butylamine, ammonia, glycine and hydroxylamine are subject to general base catalysis, as shown by a greater than first-order dependence of the rate on the concentration of amine buffers. The re-actions of acetyl phosphate at neutral pH. with hydroxylamine, aniline, morpholine, N-methylimidazole, glycine and glycylglycine give C-0 bond breaking and proceed predominantly through an acid-catalyzed pathway; ie, they involve a reac-tion of amine base with the acetyl phosphate monoanion. The existence of these catalyzed reaction paths partially accounts for the relatively high reactivity of acetyl phosphate. The reaction with glycine and the neutral and base-catalyzed hydrolysis of acetyl phosphate are catalyzed by calcium ion. The reactions with pyridine, 4-methylpyridine, triethylenedi-amine and probably trimethylamine give PO bond breaking; in the presence of fluoride, fluorophosphate is formed, suggesting that these reactions represent nucleophilic catalysis of phosphoryl transfer. Fluoride also reacts directly withthe acetyl phosphate monoanion to give fluorophosphate, but does not react appreciably with the acetyl phosphate dianion.The high reactivity of acetylimidazole at neutral pH is due not so much to a high reactivity of the compound itself as to the availability of facile acidand general base-catalyzed paths for its reactions. 2 The present study was undertaken to determine the extent to which the reactions of acetyl phosphate, another “energy-rich” compound of some biochemical importance, 3-6 proceed by similar cata-lytic pathways in aqueous solution near neutrality. In the course of the study several unexpected characteristics of acyl phosphate reactions were en-countered.