Hydrogen/deuterium exchange

In the field of protein chemistry, it has become more and more important to be able to determine tertiary as well as secondary and primary structure in order to decide what properties of a given protein determine its functions. One of the techniques introduced in recent years for such purposes is hydrogen-deuterium exchange. 

The tertiary structure of the macromolecule and its molecular weight can be ascertained from measurements of intrinsic viscosity and diffusion, from ultracentrifugation studies, and from light scattering determinations. These methods can 

The various methods of studying hydrogen exchange reactions have been reviewed recently (DiSabato and Ottesen, 1967). A brief description of the methods available for hydrogen-deuterium exchange follows. 

The first observation of such a change was made by Lenormant (1950), who found that deuteration of proteins decreases the intensity of the amide absorption band at 1550cm and results in a new band at 1450cm . This observation was confirmed by the studies of Lenormant and Blout (1953) on the infrared spectra of bovine plasma albumin in D2O. Practical application of this observation was not made however until almost a decade later when simultaneous reports appeared in the literature from different laboratories (Blout et ai, 1961 Nielsen, 1960 Nielsen et al., 1960 and Bryan and Nielsen, 1960). 

Some of the main features of this method are described below and for greater detail reference may be made to the papers by Blout et al. (1961) and Hvidt (1963). 

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Protonated methanes and their homologues and derivatives are experimentally indicated in superacidic chemistry by hydrogen-deuterium exchange experiments, as well as by core electron (ESCA) spectroscopy of their frozen matrixes. Some of their derivatives could even be isolated as crystalline compounds. In recent years, Schmidbaur has pre-... 

Two types of hydrogen replacement are discussed here (1) the base-induced hydrogen-deuterium exchange reactions and (2) the hydrogen-metal exchange reactions. 

The reaction takes place extremely rapidly and if D2O is present in excess all the alcohol is con verted to ROD This hydrogen-deuterium exchange can be catalyzed by either acids or bases If D30 is the catalyst in acid solution and DO the catalyst in base wnte reasonable reaction mech anisms for the conversion of ROH to ROD under conditions of (a) acid catalysis and (b) base catalysis... 

Each act of proton abstraction from the a carbon converts a chiral molecule to an achi ral enol or enolate ion The sp hybridized carbon that is the chirality center m the start mg ketone becomes sp hybridized m the enol or enolate Careful kinetic studies have established that the rate of loss of optical activity of sec butyl phenyl ketone is equal to Its rate of hydrogen-deuterium exchange its rate of brommation and its rate of lodma tion In each case the rate determining step is conversion of the starting ketone to the enol or enolate anion... 

Electrophilic Attack. A variety of boranes, heteroboranes, and metaHaboranes undergo electrophilic substitution. SusceptibiUty of boranes to electrophilic attack is often detected by deuteron—proton exchange experiments. Eor example, electrophilic hydrogen—deuterium exchange of occurs at the l-,2-,3-, and 4-positions when exposed to DCl in the presence of AlCl (81). The trend to increasing positive sites in is... 

In pyridazine, base-catalyzed hydrogen-deuterium exchange takes place at positions 4 and 5 more easily than at positions 3 or 6. Deuteration of pyridazine 1-oxide in NaOD/DiO... 

The hydrogen-deuterium exchange rates for 1,2-dimethylpyrazolium cation (protons 3 and 5 exchange faster than proton 4 Section 4.04.2.1.7(iii)) have been examined theoretically within the framework of the CNDO/2 approximation (73T3469). The final conclusion is that the relative reactivities of isomeric positions in the pyrazolium series are determined essentially by inductive and hybridization effects. 

Azaindolizine, 5-chloro-nucleophilic substitution, 4, 458 8-Azaindolizine, 7-chloro-nucleophilic substitution, 4, 458 Azaindolizines basicity, 4, 454 electronic spectra, 4, 445 electrophilic substitution, 4, 453 halogenation, 4, 457 hydrogen/deuterium exchange, 4, 458 NMR, 4, 447, 449 nucleophilic attack, 4, 458 protonation, 4, 453 reaction with isothiocyanates, 4, 513 reactions, 5, 267 reviews, 4, 444 UV spectra, 4, 446, 449 Azaindolizines, amino-tautomerism, 4, 452... 

Pyridine, 3-(dimethylamino)-amination, 2, 236 methylation, 2, 342 nitration, 2, 192 iV-oxide synthesis, 2, 342 Pyridine, 4-(dimethylamino)-in acylation, 2, 180 alkyl derivatives pK, 2, 171 amination, 2, 234 Arrhenius parameters, 2, 172 as base catalysts, 1, 475 hydrogen-deuterium exchange, 2, 286 ionization constants, 2, 172 methylation, 2, 342 nitration, 2, 192 iV-oxide synthesis, 2, 342... 

Pyridinium methiodide, 3-cyano-hydrogen-deuterium exchange, 2, 287 Pyridinium methiodide, 3-methyl-hydrogen-deuterium exchange, 2, 287 Pyridinium methosulfate, l-methoxy-3-methyl-reactions... 

Pyridin-4-one, 1 -hydroxy-2,6-dimethyl-hydrogen-deuterium exchange reactions, 2, 196 Pyridin-4-one, 1-methyl-hydrogen-deuterium exchange, 2, 287 pK 2, 150 Pyridin-2-one imine tautomerism, 2, 158 Pyridin-2-one imine, 1-methyl-quaternization, 4, 503 Pyridin-4-one imine tautomerism, 2, 158 Pyridinone methides, 2, 331 tautomerism, 2, 158 Pyridinones acylation, 2, 352 alkylation, 2, 349 aromaticity, 2, 148 association... 

Beyer synthesis, 2, 474 electrolytic oxidation, 2, 325 7r-electron density calculations, 2, 316 1-electron reduction, 2, 282, 283 electrophilic halogenation, 2, 49 electrophilic substitution, 2, 49 Emmert reaction, 2, 276 food preservative, 1,411 free radical acylation, 2, 298 free radical alkylation, 2, 45, 295 free radical amidation, 2, 299 free radical arylation, 2, 295 Friedel-Crafts reactions, 2, 208 Friedlander synthesis, 2, 70, 443 fluorination, 2, 199 halogenation, 2, 40 hydrogenation, 2, 45, 284-285, 327 hydrogen-deuterium exchange, 2, 196, 286 hydroxylation, 2, 325 iodination, 2, 202, 320 ionization constants, 2, 172 IR spectra, 2, 18 lithiation, 2, 267... 

Triazine, 5-methyl-hydrogen-deuterium exchange, 3, 401 reactions... 

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