Imidazole interactions

Imidazole groups in histidyl side chains bind in proteins to metal ions, but the metal cation nearly always lies in or very near the plane of the imidazole group. One imidazole can bind one or two metal ions, depending on the ionization state and suitability of the metal ion (Zn + and Cu + being common binders). A scatterplot of metal-imidazole interactions is shown in Figure 17.10. In proteins, the metal ion shows a preference... 

The orientation about the exocyclic, C-4 -C-5 bond is trans (178.7°). There is sugar (0-4 )-base (imidazole) interaction in this structure. 

If neutral-neutral imidazole interaction or bifunctional catalysis is involved at neutral or near neutral pH, then three mechanisms can be proposed to describe the interactions between the polymer catalyst and the substrate. 

Catalytic Rate Constants for the Solvolysis of PNPA Catalyzed by Poly-U(5)-Vinylimidazole and Imidazole (Neutral-Neutral Imidazole Interactions)... 

Since the fraction of anionic imidazole present is generally extremely small in the pH regions investigated, the cooperative interactions have been mainly attributed to neutral imidazole-imidazole interactions (k2cx ) Overberger (9) presented three possible mechanisms for neutral imidazole cooperative interactions which are... 

Reaction of l,3-bis(phenylmethyl)imidazol-2-ylidene with nickel tetra carbonyl gives [(t (C)-1,3-bis(phenylmethyl)imidazol-2-ylidene)Ni(CO)3] (970M2472). Complexes of composition [Ni(CO)2L2] with imidazol-2-ylidenes are also known (93JOM(459)177). Another species to be mentioned in this respect is bis(l,3-dimesitylimidazol-2-ylidene)nickel(0) (94JA4391). 1,3-Dicyclohexylimidazol-2-yUdene substitutes triphenylphosphine or THF from [NiX LJ (X = Cl, Br L PPhj, THF) to yield the stable nickel(II) complexes 69 (X = C1, Br R = Cy) (97OM2209). Another preparation of nickel(II) derivatives is the interaction of... 

Co-condensation reaction of the vapors of l,3-di-rcrt-butylimidazol-2-ylidene and nickel, palladium, or platinum gives the coordinatively unsaturated 14-electron sandwiches [L M] (M=Ni, Pd, Pt) of the carbene type (990M3228). Palladium(O) carbene complexes can also be prepared by the direct interaction of l,3-R2-imidazol-2-ylidenes (R=/-Pr, r-Bu, Cy, Mes) (L) with the palladium(O) compound [Pd(P(o-Tol)3)2] (OOJOM(595)186), and the product at the first stage is [(L)PdP(o-Tol)3l, and then in excess free carbene [PdL ]. 

Recently, the quaternized poly-4-vinylpyridine, 50-54 (QPVP) was found to be an electron acceptor in the charge-transfer interactions 104 Ishiwatari et al.105) studied alkaline hydrolyses of p-nitrophenyl-3-indoleacetate 58 (p-NPIA) and N-(indole-3-acryloyl) imidazole 59 (IAI) (electron donor) in the presence of QPVP. The fcobs vs. polyelectrolyte concentration plots are shown in Fig. 12. As is seen in... 

So far, many kinds of nucleophiles active for hydrolysis such as imidazolyl-, amino-, pyridino-, carboxyl- and thiol-groups, have been used for preparation of hydrolase models. Overberger et al.108,1091 prepared copolymers of vinylimidazole and acrylic acid 60 (PVIm AA), by which the cationic substrate, 61 (ANTI), was hydrolyzed. This kind of copolymer is considered to be a model of acetylcholinesterase. With ANTI, the rate of the copolymer catalysis was higher than that of imidazole itself in the higher values of pH, as is seen in Table 9. In this work, important contributions of the electrostatic interactions are clear. The activity of the copolymer was not as high with the negatively charged and neutral substrates. 

The nature of the interaction between the monomer and the template is more obvious in cases where specific ionic or hydrogen bonding is possible. For example, /f-vinyl imidazole has been polymerized along a PM A A template301 202 and acrylic acid has been polymerized on a Af-vinylpyrrolidone template.3 The daughter PAA had a similar degree of polymerization to the template and had a greater fraction of isotaclic triads than PAA formed in the absence of the template. 

Interactions of histidine and other imidazole derivatives with transition metal ions in chemical and biological systems. R. J. Sundberg and R. B. Martin, Chem. Rev., 1974, 74, 471-517 (517). 

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