Chemical reactivity electrophilic

HMO calculations for furo[3,2-b]pyrrole (36) indicate a compound without a well pronounced aromatic character (order of double bonds 0.98-0.73 order of single bonds 0.44-0.48). The introduction into the 5-position of an electron-accepting substituent (CO2H, C02R) increased the aromatic character of the skeleton. Based upon the calculated indices of chemical reactivity, electrophilic attack is anticipated at carbons 5 and 2, and nucleophilic attack at the heteroatoms of the skeleton O > N (81CCC2949). 

A frequent mechanism of DILI is the metabolic activation of drugs by cytochrome P450 (CYP) into chemically reactive, electrophilic metabolites, which react with and covalently bind to hepatic proteins and glutathione (Pessayre 1995). These reactive metabolites can trigger hepatitis through direct toxicity or immune reactions (Robin et al. 1997 Pessayre et al. 1999). 

Two papers dealing with HMO calculations of the chemical reactivity of substituted thiophens should be noted one on the acid-catalysed hydrogen exchange" and the other on the transmission of substituent effects across the thiophen ring" Gol dfarb et al." have studied another problem in chemical reactivity electrophilic substitution of thiophen-2-carbaldehyde occurs in the 5-position but at the 4-position when this compound is protonated, and substitution in protonated 2-amino-thiophens occurs at the 5-position despite the m-directing property of the ammonium group. They found the chemical reactivity to be related to the CNDO/2 valence-electron densities." ... 

Isopentenyl pyrophosphate and dimethylallyl pyrophosphate are structurally sim liar—both contain a double bond and a pyrophosphate ester unit—but the chemical reactivity expressed by each is different The principal site of reaction m dimethylallyl pyrophosphate is the carbon that bears the pyrophosphate group Pyrophosphate is a reasonably good leaving group m nucleophilic substitution reactions especially when as in dimethylallyl pyrophosphate it is located at an allylic carbon Isopentenyl pyrophosphate on the other hand does not have its leaving group attached to an allylic carbon and is far less reactive than dimethylallyl pyrophosphate toward nucleophilic reagents The principal site of reaction m isopentenyl pyrophosphate is the carbon-carbon double bond which like the double bonds of simple alkenes is reactive toward electrophiles... 

Since the electrophilic reagent attacks the multiply-bonded nitrogen atom, as shown for (68) and (69), the orientation of the reaction product is related to the tautomeric structure of the starting material. However, any conclusion regarding tautomeric equilibria from chemical reactivity can be misleading since a minor component can react preferentially and then be continually replenished by isomerization of the major component. 

The chemical reactivity of these two substituted ethylenes is in agreement with the ideas encompassed by both the MO and resonance descriptions. Enamines, as amino-substituted alkenes are called, are vety reactive toward electrophilic species, and it is the p carbon that is the site of attack. For example, enamines are protonated on the carbon. Acrolein is an electrophilic alkene, as predicted, and the nucleophile attacks the P carbon. 

The functionalized cadmium compound dialkoxyphosphinyldifluorometh-ylcadmium is readily prepared by direct reaction of bromodifluoromethanephos-phonates with cadmium metal [13 ] (equation 105). This cadmium reagent shows versatile chemical reactivity and reacts with a wide variety of electrophiles, as illustrated m equations 106-109 [139,140,141, 142]... 

Frontier Orbitals and Chemical Reactivity. Chemical reactions typically involve movement of electrons from an electron donor (base, nucleophile, reducing agent) to an electron acceptor (acid, electrophile, oxidizing agent). This electron movement between molecules can also be thought of as electron movement between molecular orbitals, and the properties of these electron donor and electron acceptor orbitals provide considerable insight into chemical reactivity. 

The high stability of porphyrins and metalloporphyrins is based on their aromaticity, so that porphyrins are not only most widespread in biological systems but also are found as geoporphyrins in sediments and have even been detected in interstellar space. The stability of the porphyrin ring system can be demonstrated by treatment with strong acids, which leave the macrocycle untouched. The instability of porphyrins occurs in reduction and oxidation reactions especially in the presence of light. The most common chemical reactivity of the porphyrin nucleus is electrophilic substitution which is typical for aromatic compounds. 

An affinity label is a molecule that contains a functionality that is chemically reactive and will therefore form a covalent bond with other molecules containing a complementary functionality. Generally, affinity labels contain electrophilic functionalities that form covalent bonds with protein nucleophiles, leading to protein alkylation or protein acylation. In some cases affinity labels interact selectively with specific amino acid side chains, and this feature of the molecule can make them useful reagents for defining the importance of certain amino acid types in enzyme function. For example, iodoacetate and A-ethyl maleimide are two compounds that selectively modify the sulfur atom of cysteine side chains. These compounds can therefore be used to test the functional importance of cysteine residues for an enzyme s activity. This topic is covered in more detail below in Section 8.4. 

More than just a few parameters have to be considered when modelling chemical reactivity in a broader perspective than for the well-defined but restricted reaction sets of the preceding section. Here, however, not enough statistically well-balanced, quantitative, experimental data are available to allow multilinear regression analysis (MLRA). An additional complicating factor derives from comparison of various reactions, where data of quite different types are encountered. For example, how can product distributions for electrophilic aromatic substitutions be compared with acidity constants of aliphatic carboxylic acids And on the side of the parameters how can the influence on chemical reactivity of both bond dissociation energies and bond polarities be simultaneously handled when only limited data are available ... 

The electron-transfer paradigm for chemical reactivity in Scheme 1 (equation 8) provides a unifying mechanistic basis for various bimolecular reactions via the identification of nucleophiles as electron donors and electrophiles as electron acceptors according to Chart 1. Such a reclassification of either a nucleophile/ electrophile, an anion/cation, a base/acid, or a reductant/oxidant pair under a single donor/acceptor rubric offers a number of advantages previously unavailable, foremost of which is the quantitative prediction of reaction rates by invoking the FERET in equation (104). 

These findings, and extensive subsequent work, are consistent with a singlet ground state for this species. The chemical reactivity of these carbenes towards olefins can be related empirically but quantitatively to the electronic properties of the substituents (Moss et al., 1977 Moss, 1980). An extreme example is dimethoxycarbene which does not exhibit at all the electrophilic properties normally associated with the vacant non-bonding orbital of a singlet carbene (Lemal et al., 1966). These findings are easily understood by... 

Despite intense study of the chemical reactivity of the inorganic NO donor SNP with a number of electrophiles and nucleophiles (in particular thiols), the mechanism of NO release from this drug also remains incompletely understood. In biological systems, both enzymatic and non-enzymatic pathways appear to be involved [28]. Nitric oxide release is thought to be preceded by a one-electron reduction step followed by release of cyanide, and an inner-sphere charge transfer reaction between the ni-trosonium ion (NO+) and the ferrous iron (Fe2+). Upon addition of SNP to tissues, formation of iron nitrosyl complexes, which are in equilibrium with S-nitrosothiols, has been observed. A membrane-bound enzyme may be involved in the generation of NO from SNP in vascular tissue [35], but the exact nature of this reducing activity is unknown. 

Also, it is interesting to note that in the smooth quadratic interpolation, the curve of the total energy as a function of the number of electrons shows a minimum for some value of N beyond N0 (see Figure 2.1). This point has been associated by Parr et al. [49] with the electrophilicity index that measures the energy change of an electrophile when it becomes saturated with electrons. Together with this global quantity, the philicity concept of Chattaraj et al. [50,51] has been extensively used to study a wide variety of different chemical reactivity problems. 

A comparison of porphyrin and pincer activity rationalized through reactivity index Porphyrin and pincer complexes are both important categories of compounds in biological and catalytic systems. Structure, spectroscopy, and reactivity properties of porphyrin pincers are systematically studied for selection of divalent metal ions. It is reported that the porphyrin pincers are structurally and spectroscopically different from their precursors and are more reactive in electrophilic and nucleophilic reactions. These results are implicative in chemical modification of hemoproteins and understanding the chemical reactivity in heme-containing and other biologically important complexes and cofactors [45]. 

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