Amides, coordinated Hydrolysis

Many more recent stoichiometric studies of cobalt(III) complexes have been responsible for most of the developments in this area of research. Cobalt(III) ammine complexes effect hydrolysis of ethyl glycinate in basic conditions via intramolecular attack of a coordinated amide ion hydrolysis by external hydroxide ion attack also occurs (equation 74).341 Replacement of ammonia ligands by a quadridentate or two bidentate ligands allows the formation of aquo-hydroxo complexes and enables intramolecular hydroxide ion attack on a coordinated amino ester, amino amide... 

Perhaps the most extensively studied catalytic reaction in acpreous solutions is the metal-ion catalysed hydrolysis of carboxylate esters, phosphate esters , phosphate diesters, amides and nittiles". Inspired by hydrolytic metalloenzymes, a multitude of different metal-ion complexes have been prepared and analysed with respect to their hydrolytic activity. Unfortunately, the exact mechanism by which these complexes operate is not completely clarified. The most important role of the catalyst is coordination of a hydroxide ion that is acting as a nucleophile. The extent of activation of tire substrate througji coordination to the Lewis-acidic metal centre is still unclear and probably varies from one substrate to another. For monodentate substrates this interaction is not very efficient. Only a few quantitative studies have been published. Chan et al. reported an equilibrium constant for coordination of the amide carbonyl group of... 

Inspired by the many hydrolytically-active metallo enzymes encountered in nature, extensive studies have been performed on so-called metallo micelles. These investigations usually focus on mixed micelles of a common surfactant together with a special chelating surfactant that exhibits a high affinity for transition-metal ions. These aggregates can have remarkable catalytic effects on the hydrolysis of activated carboxylic acid esters, phosphate esters and amides. In these reactions the exact role of the metal ion is not clear and may vary from one system to another. However, there are strong indications that the major function of the metal ion is the coordination of hydroxide anion in the Stem region of the micelle where it is in the proximity of the micelle-bound substrate. The first report of catalysis of a hydrolysis reaction by me tall omi cell es stems from 1978. In the years that... 

Amides offer both O and N-donors for Co coordination. N-bound amides are accessible through hydrolysis of their corresponding coordinated nitrile or by linkage isomerization of the O-bound form. The preparation of an extensive series of pentaamminecobalt(III) complexes of (monoden-tate-coordinated) amides of the form RCONH2 (R = H, Me, CF3, CH2C1, CH2F, CH=CH2, Ph,... 

Kostic el al. discovered that Pd11 complexes, when attached to tryptophan residues, can rapidly cleave peptides in acetone solutions to which a stoichiometric amount of water is added, for hydrolysis.436 The indole tautomer in which a hydrogen has moved from the nitrogen to C(3) is named indolenine. Its palladium(II) complexes that are coordinated via the nitrogen atom have been characterized by X-ray crystallography and spectroscopic methods.451 Binuclear dimeric complexes between palladium(II) and indole-3-acetate involve cyclopalladation.452 Bidentate coordination to palladium(II) through the N(l) and the C(2) atoms occurs in binuclear complexes.453 Reactions of palladium(II) complexes with indole-3-acetamide and its derivatives produced new complexes of unusual structure. Various NMR, UV, IR, and mass spectral analyses have revealed bidentate coordination via the indole carbon C(3) and the amide oxygen.437... 

The zinc complex of a tripodal N2S20 pentadentate ligand undergoes amide alcoholysis of a coordinated amide group.893 Examples of amide hydrolysis are known for other ligand systems.894... 

Coordination of the amide carbonyl to the Co metal center bearing a H20 molecule as a ligand in (159) is crucial for the suppression of hydrogenolysis as compared to hydrolysis even under a high pressure of H2. The mechanism is shown in Scheme 8.612>613... 

Fig. 5.20. Modes of coordination of transition metal ions with /3-lactam antibiotics. Complex A In penicillins, the metal ion coordinates with the carboxylate group and the /3-lactam N-atom. This complex stabilizes the tetrahedral intermediate and facilitates the attack of HO-ions from the bulk solution. Complex B In benzylpenicillin Cu11 binds to the deprotonated N-atom of the amide side chain. The hydrolysis involves an intramolecular attack by a Cu-coordinated HO- species on the carbonyl group. Complex C In cephalosporins, coordination of the metal ion is by the carbonyl O-atom and the carboxylate group. Because the transition state is less stabilized than in A, the acceleration factor of metal ions for the hydrolysis of cephalosporins is lower than for penicillins. Complex D /3-Lactams with a basic side chain bind the metal ion to the carbonyl and the amino group in their side chain. This binding mode does not stabilize the tetrahedral transition complex and, therefore, does not affect the rate of... 

The amide and peptide linkages are much more difficult to hydrolyze than the ester grouping. Both free and metal bound groups hydrolyze with second-order rate constants approximately 10 -10 less than for the corresponding esters. There are two potential sites for coordination in the -CONHR residue, namely at the carbonyl O in 13 and at the amide N in 14 where ionization of the amide proton is induced (Sec. 6.4.3). Cu + promotes hydrolysis of glycinamide at low pH where it is present as 13. However it inhibits hydrolysis at high pH, where it is 14, to such a degree that hydrolysis cannot be observed. ... 

Table 6w4 Effect of Cobalt(lll) Coordination on Rate Constants for Base Hydrolysis of Amino Acid Amides...

A bigger effect for H2O than OH is very unusual and is a behavior certainly not shown by the uncoordinated amide. The effect is ascribed to a benefit from cyclization and concerted loss of protonated amide, without formation of the tetrahedral intermediate. Although the coordinated OH is some 10 times less effective than coordinated HjO (Table 6.4), it is still about 10 times faster with 15 than via external attack by OH at pH 7 on the chelated amide 13. Early studies showed that complexes of the type CoN4(H20)OH can promote the hydrolysis of esters, amides and dipeptides and that this probably arises via formation of ester, amide or peptide chelates. These then hydrolyze in the manner above. 

Considerable attention has been paid to this transformation (which is sometimes referred to as hydration ) in the past 15 years. 2. early example of the effect was the marked acceleration of the base hydrolysis of 2-cyanophenanthroline by Ni +, Cu + and Zn " " ions. The second-order rate constant is lO -fold higher for the Ni complex than for the free ligand, residing mainly in a more positive AS An external OH attack on the chelate was favored but an internal attack by Ni(II) coordinated OH cannot be ruled out. Nickel-ion catalysis of the hydrolysis of the phenanthroline-2-amide product is much less effective, being only about 4 x 10 times the rate for spontaneous hydrolysis. ... 

Dr. Halpern This could be used in stabilizing, say an activated complex. The point about the hydrolysis observation is that this refers to the octahedral complex, whereas the explanations that have been offered for the effect of amide in the conjugate base mechanism are concerned, not with weakening of the binding, but with stabilizing a five-coordinated intermediate. I wondered if the role of the hydroxide in promoting water substitution might be of the same nature. 

Hydrolysis of peptides,84 amides,85 phosphate esters,86 sulfonate esters87 and acetals88 can also be metal catalyzed. The hydrolysis of a phosphate ester coordinated to cobalt(III) also occurs at an increased rate (Scheme 19).89 A rather similar reaction occurs in the amine exchange of coordinated dithiocarbamates (equation 21).90 The conversion of imidates to amidines has been mentioned previously and is a similar type of reaction (see Section 7.4.2.2.1). 

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