Amide assignments

The bromination of 4,5-j -dihydrocortisone acetate in buffered acetic acid does not proceed very cleanly (<70%) and, in an attempt to improve this step in the cortisone synthesis, Holysz ° investigated the use of dimethylformamide (DMF) as a solvent for bromination. Improved yields were obtained (although in retrospect the homogeneity and structural assignments of some products seem questionable.) It was also observed that the combination of certain metal halides, particularly lithium chloride and bromide in hot DMF was specially effective in dehydrobromination of 4-bromodihydrocortisone acetate. Other amide solvents such as dimethylacetamide (DMA) and A-formylpiperidine can be used in place of DMF. It became apparent later that this method of dehydrobromination is also prone to produce isomeric unsaturated ketones. When applied to 2,4-dibromo-3-ketones, a substantial amount of the A -isomer is formed. 

An earlier report (126) which assigned the irons configuration to the enamine (175) derived from the cyanamine (176) upon reaction with potassium amide in liquid ammonia has been questioned by Munk and Kim (725). They also have doubts about the structures (177 and 178) proposed for the products obtained by the reduction of acetonitrile with sodium (727). 

Ultraviolet absorptions ofvinylogous lactams were found by MOLCAO calculations and compared with experimental values (663). Infrared spectroscopic studies of vinylogous amides (664) and some fifty vinylogous urethanes (665) allowed configurational and structural assignments. The effect of enamine-imine equilibrium in a series of benzophenone derivatives was established (666) and the effect of structure on enamine basicity studied (667). 

Only those bands are given which are assigned to the reacting amide group. 

The carboxyl chromophore is axial for the a anomer and equatorial for the p anomer. The sugar was studied as the carboxylate anion as it has a (low) piC of 2.6, and the compound is degraded in acidic solution. The c.d. spectrum of this compound contains contributions from the carboxylate n-jr at 217 nm, the amide n-tr at 210 nm, and the amide 7T7r at 190 nm. Apparently, all of these bands are positive, giving rise to a c.d. spectrum (see Fig. 29) having " a maximum at 199 nm and a shoulder at 210 nm. The c.d. spectra of a number of derivatives confirmed these assignments. 

D-NOESY- H- N-HMQC/HSQC Sequential assignment of the spin system, identification of nOes with amide protons... 

The indicator variable I is assigned the value of 1 for the presence of amide derivatives and 0 for the esters. Its negative coefficient suggests that esters would be preferred over amides for this data set. nx is the calculated hydrophobic parameter of the X-substituents. Its positive coefficient suggests that the highly hydrophobic X-substituents would be preferred. 

The authors expressed PKA consisting of 353 amino acids, of which eight are prolines. Resonances of 274 backbone amide peaks were visible in the spectrum, of which 191 were assigned. It was possible to assign resonances for the N- and C-terminal sequences, the majority of the N-lobe, including the glycine-rich loop, and most of the solvent-exposed residues of the C-lobe. This enabled a determination of the structure for the more flexible parts of the structure. However, many correlations were missing for the... 

Further evidence for these a-helix ROA band assignments in the extended amide III region comes from the ROA spectrum of poly-L-alanine dissolved in a mixture of chloroform (70%) and dichloracetic acid (30%), known to promote a-helix formation (Fasman, 1987), which shows strong positive ROA bands at 1305 and 1341 cm-1 (unpublished results), and of the cv-helix forming alanine-rich peptide AK21 (sequence Ac-AAKAAAAKAAAAKAAAAKAGY-NHg) in aqueous solution which shows strong positive ROA bands at 1309 and 1344 cm-1 (Blanch et al., 2000). 

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