Dimethyl sulfoxide binding

Water plays a crucial role in the inclusion process. Although cyclodextrin does form inclusion complexes in such nonaqueous solvents as dimethyl sulfoxide, the binding is very weak compared with that in water 13 Recently, it has been shown that the thermodynamic stabilities of some inclusion complexes in aqueous solutions decrease markedly with the addition of dimethyl sulfoxide to the solutions 14,15>. Kinetic parameters determined for inclusion reactions also revealed that the rate-determining step of the reactions is the breakdown of the water structure around a substrate molecule and/or within the cyclodextrin cavity 16,17). 

Hence, the dimethyl sulfoxide molecule in these examples tends to reach a possibly coplanar orientation with regard to the binding carboxyl group. 

The sequence of the selectivities towards cations is also solvent dependent for dibenzo-18-crown-6 [11] the sequence is K+ > Na+ > Rb+ > Cs+ in water, methanol, dimethylformamide and dimethyl sulfoxide (Dechter and Zink, 1976 Srivanavit et al., 1977), whereas it is Na+ > K+ > Rb+ > Cs+ in acetonitrile (Hofmanova et al., 1978). A reversal of the K+/Na+ selectivity on going to apolar aprotic solvents was also observed for fluorenyl salts (Wong et al., 1970). Whereas for alkali cations the sequence of binding constants and enthalpies are the same in water (Izatt et al., 1976a), they differ considerably in methanol/water mixtures (Izatt et al., 1976b), dimethyl sulfoxide and acetone (Arnett and Moriarity, 1971). 

Although complex-formation has been observed in nonaqueous solvents, for example, dimethyl sulfoxide, " it has been found that the binding is very weak compared to that in water, thus suggesting the importance of hydrophobic interactions. 

On the basis of this concept, bis-urea (13) and bis-thioureas (14-18) were synthesized and their binding with dihydrogenphosphate (H2PO4) and various other anions in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was investigated by H NMR spectroscopy. Stability constants, /r,, for the 1 1 complexes are given in Table 1, together with those for the 1 1 complexes with )V,A/ -dimethylurea (19) and NJ -dimethylthiourea (20). ... 

Killday etal. (1988) also provided evidence for internal autoreduction of ferric nitrosyl heme complexes, as previously proposed by Giddings (1977). Heating of chlorohemin( iron-III) dimethyl ester in dimethyl sulfoxide solution with imidazole and NO produced a product with an infrared spectra identical to that of nitrosyl iron(ll) protoporphyrin dimethyl ester prepared by dithionite reduction. Both spectra clearly showed the characteristic nitrosyl stretch at 1663 and 1665 cm. They thus proposed a mechanism for formation of cured meat pigment which includes internal autoreduction of NOMMb via globin imidazole residues. A second mole of nitrite is proposed to bind to the heat-denatured protein, possibly at a charged histidine residue generated in the previous autoreduction step. 

A crystal structure of a ternary complex of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase with NADH and the inhibitor, dimethyl sulfoxide, first at 4.5 A resolution1365 and a further refinement to 2.9 A resolution,1366 has been published by Eklund et al. The gross structure of the ternary complex is similar to that of the free enzyme structure. Each subunit is divided into a coenzyme-binding domain and a catalytic domain. The subunits are joined together near the... 

A related imidazole-appended zinc(II) porphyrin linked via an ethynylphenyl unit to a magnesium(II) phthalocyanine has recently been reported [38], The imidazole group binds to the magnesium center to form a stacked dimer in noncoordinating solvents such as chloroform even at submicromolar concentration (<10-6M). Upon addition of dimethyl sulfoxide, the stacked dimer transforms to an extended dimer in which the imidazole group binds to the zinc center on the basis of the hard and soft acid and base principle. The extended dimer exhibits a much stronger fluorescence (by a factor of 28) compared with the stacked dimer, and this coordination-induced sliding motion has been found to be reversible. 

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