THE ASSOCIATION OF IMIDAZOLE WITH THE IONS OF ZINC AND CUPRIC COPPER
THE ASSOCIATION OF IMIDAZOLE WITH THE IONS OF ZINC AND CUPRIC COPPER
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01640a068
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发表时间:
1954-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
GURD, FRN
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作者:
EDSALL, JT;FELSENFELD, G;GURD, FRN
The interaction of imidazole with the ions of zinc and cupric copper was determined by means of pH measurements on solutions containing imidazole, imidazolium ion and either copper or zinc ions, in solutions containing nitrate ion at ionic strength 0.16. In both cases it was found that the coordination number of the ion for imidazole was 4. The successive logarithmic intrinsic associationconstants at 4.5 were for Cu++: 4.00, 3.63, 3.27 and 2.90; and for Zn++: 2.16, 2.32, 2.53 and 2.80. Association constants at 22.5 or 24 were also determined, and approximate estimates of enthalpy and standard entropy changes in the association processes have been made. A new and rapid method for evaluating the associa-tion constants from the data, developed by ProfessorGeorge Scatchard, is described. Copper-imidazole complexesshow marked absorption in the visible between590 and 690 µ and in the ultraviolet between230 and 290 mji. The latter type of absorption is not shown by complexes between copper and amino groups. Absorption spectra of the copper-histidine complex indicate that the imidazole residues of histidine are involved in the chelate linkages formed.The imidazole group plays an important role in biochemistry because of its presence in histamine and histidine. The imidazole groups ofhistidine are indeed generally responsible for most of the buffering power of proteins in the physiological pYi range. Some work has been reported on the binding of metallic ions by the imidazole groups of histidine, and evidence has been obtained5· 1 23