Hgands

This is the most common and stable state of chromium in aqueous solution. The Cr ion, with 2d electrons, forms mainly octahedral complexes [CrX ], which are usually coloured, and are kweticallv inert, i.e. the rate of substitution of X by another hgand is very slow consequently a large number of such complexes have been isolated (see below, under chromium(III) chloride). 

Figure 7-15 shows the time evolution of the temperature, total energy, and potential energy for a 300 ps simulation of the tetracycline repressor dimer in its induced (i.e., hgand-bound) form. Starting from the X-ray structure of the monomer in a complex with one molecule of tetracycline and a magnesium ion (protein database... 

After an alignment of a set of molecules known to bind to the same receptor a comparative molecular field analysis CoMFA) makes it possible to determine and visuahze molecular interaction regions involved in hgand-receptor binding [51]. Further on, statistical methods such as partial least squares regression PLS) are applied to search for a correlation between CoMFA descriptors and biological activity. The CoMFA descriptors have been one of the most widely used set of descriptors. However, their apex has been reached. 

In addition, researchers can survey the surface and clefts of a macromolecule for potential receptor sites based on Hgand distance ranges "use the common distance range of the superimposed atoms" (116) to faciHtate the development of a "pharmacophore" or critical contact assembly besides the Hgand... 

Ketenes can react in several ways with organometaUic compounds and complexes. They can add as ligands to coordinated metals forming stable ketene, ketenyl, and ketenyfldene complexes. Ketenes can be inserted into metal—hydride, metal—alkyl, metal—OR, and metal—NR2 bonds, react with metal—oxide complexes, and with coordinated Hgands. This chemistry has been reviewed (9,51). 

The quest for a comprehensible theory of coordination chemistry has given rise to the use of valence-bond, crystal-field, hgand-field, and molecular-otbital... 

The specific action of a particular metal complex can be altered by varying the hgands or coordination number of the complex or the oxidation state of the central metal atom. 

Indications fliat endogenous AHR hgand(s) may be derived from tryptophan have been reported repeatedly (87JBC15422 91MI5 98MI6 OOMIl 1). This implies fliat the tryptophan photoproduct 202 and molecules with a similar sbuctural framework are the most likely candidates as endogenous ligands for the AHR. 

Complex 105 in an atmosphere of carbon monoxide experiences rearrangement to 106, which through C-H activation gives the final product 107 with i -coordiantion of the 3,4-diphosphacyclopentadienone hgand (97JCS(CC)1539). 

In their search for new hgands with a very high binding affinity for the nicotinic acetylchohne receptor (nAChR), potentially useful in positron emission tomography (PET) when radiolabeled with [ F], Horti et al. described the synthesis of BOC-protected 5-(azetidin-2-ylmethoxy)-2-chloro-6 -fluoro-3,3 -bipyridine via a sequential classical heating and microwave irradiation of (2-fluoro-5-pyridinyl)(trimethyl)stannane with f-butyl 2- [(6-chloro-5-... 

Ethyl 6-methyl-4-phenyl-2-(phenylthio)-l,4-dihydropyrimidine-5-carboxyla-te was easily synthesized from ethyl 6-methyl-4-phenyl-2-thioxo- 1,2,3,4-tetra-hydropyrimidine-5-carboxylate and phenylboronic acid via microwave-assisted Cu-mediated S-phenylation (Scheme 108) [107]. The reaction involves the use of a stoichiometric amount of Cu(OAc)2 and a two-fold excess of 1,10-phenanthroline as a hgand. 

The species [organohn(IV)] (n — 1-3) are considered to be Lewis acids of different strength, depending on the groups bound to the tin atom. As a consequence, they promptly hydrolyze in aqueous solution, as first demonstrated by Tobias. Later studies on the interactions of [MeiSndV)] " with hgands containing different donor atoms ( O, N, S, etc.) necessitated determination of the hydrolysis constants the evaluation of such complex formation constants was based on the data obtained earlier from independent measurements. Some data are compared in Table 1. 

A dimethyltitanium complex bearing phosphinimide Hgands TiMe2[N=P(t-Bu)3]2 reacts with Ss to give the titanium pentasulfido complex TiS5[N=P(t-Bu)3]2 (Scheme 17) [58]. This result is in a sharp contrast to the... 

A number of metal complexes with disulfurmonoxide as a ligand have been prepared either by oxidation of precursor complexes containing the 2 hgand or by trapping S2O formally produced in situ from a suitable precursor by heating [52]. Such molecules are cyclic di-, tri-, or tetrasulfane monoxides or dioxides such as the one shown in Scheme 1. 

Fig. 6. A schematic view of the [3Fe-4S] Emd [4Fe-4S] cores, as versatile structures. The absence of one site leads to the formation of a [3Fe-4S] core. The cubane structure can incorporate different metals (in proteins, M = Fe, Co, Zn, Cd, Ni, Tl, Cs), and S, N, O may be coordinating atoms from hgands (Li). The versatihty csm be extended to higher coordination number at the iron site and a water molecule can even be a ligand, exchangeable with substrate (as in the case of aconitase (,87)). The most characteristic binding motifs are schematically indicated, for different situations proteins accommodating [3Fe-4S], [4Fe-4S], [3Fe-4S] + [4Fe-4S], and [4Fe-4S] -I- [4Fe-4S] clusters. A disulfide bridge may replace a cluster site (see text).

Recall that for a 2 1 polyamide DNA complex a subsef of pairing mles Im//9 or Py//9 pairs can substitute, in certain cases, for Im/Py or Py/Py pairs, respectively [36]. The incorporation of y9-alanine allows a broader set of sequences to be targeted with high affinity. However, the extra flexibility of polyamides containing internal y9-alanines allows both 2 1 and 1 1 hgand DNA stoichiometries in the mi-... 

Significant advance in the field of asymmetric catalysis was also achieved with the preparation of l,2-bis(phospholano)benzene (DuPHOS 4) and its confor-mationally flexible derivative (l,2-bis(phospholano)ethane, known as BPE) by Burk et al. [59]. Two main distinctive features embodied by these Hgands, as compared to other known chiral diphosphine ligands, are the electron-rich character of the phosphorus atoms on the one hand and the pseudo-chirality at phosphorus atoms, on the other. These properties are responsible for both the high activity of the corresponding metal complex and an enantioselection indepen-... 

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