Heavy Atom Kinetic Isotope Effects

Kinetic isotope effects primary and secondary deuterium kinetic isotope effects. Heavy atom isotope effects. Solvent isotope effects. SnI and Sn2 mechanisms. 

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Baechler and coworkers204, have also studied the kinetics of the thermal isomerization of allylic sulfoxides and suggested a dissociative free radical mechanism. This process, depicted in equation 58, would account for the positive activation entropy, dramatic rate acceleration upon substitution at the a-allylic position, and relative insensitivity to changes in solvent polarity. Such a homolytic dissociative recombination process is also compatible with a similar study by Kwart and Benko204b employing heavy-atom kinetic isotope effects. 

Today a good understanding of transition state structure can be obtained through a combination of experimental measurements of kinetic isotope effects (KIE) and computational chemistry methods (Schramm, 1998). The basis for the KIE approach is that incorporation of a heavy isotope, at a specific atom in a substrate molecule, will affect the enzymatic reaction rate to an extent that is correlated with the change in bond vibrational environment for that atom, in going from the ground state to the... 

Several monographs2-5 have detailed discussions dealing with heavy-atom and primary and secondary hydrogen-deuterium kinetic isotope effects. The monograph by Melander and Saunders5 covers the entire area particularly well. For this reason, only a brief summary of the theory of kinetic isotope effects as well as their important uses in the determination of reaction mechanism and transition-state geometry will be presented. 

The third equation in Equation 11.47 represents a kinetic isotope effect of the first isotopomer pair measured in the presence of the second (which IE has perturbed the commitment). In order to make the changes in apparent commitment (cf/H2k3) sufficiently pronounced, deuterium is usually selected as the second isotope (H2). The first, (HI), on the other hand, is usually a heavy-atom (e.g. 13C, lsO, etc.). Most frequently this approach has been used for carbon kinetic isotope effects in which case Equation 11.47 becomes ... 

For heavy atom isotope effects tunneling is relatively unimportant and the TST model suffices. As an example the dehalogenation of 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) to 2-chloroethanol catalyzed by haloalkane dehalogenase DhlA is discussed below. This example has been chosen because the chlorine kinetic isotope effect for this reaction has been computed using three different schemes, and this system is among the most thoroughly studied examples of heavy atom isotope effects in enzymatic reactions. 

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This solvation rule for 5n2 reactions can be useful in predicting the influence of a change in solvent on the structure of activated complexes. It is in agreement with studies involving leaving group heavy atom and secondary a-deuterium kinetic isotope effects, as well as theoretical calculations of solvent effects on transition-state structures. Possible limitations of this solvation rule have been discussed see [498] and relevant references cited therein. 

For elements of low atomic numbers, the mass differences between the isotopes of an element are large enough for many physical, chemical, and biological processes or reactions to fractionate or change the relative proportions of various isotopes. Two different types of processes— equilibrium isotope effects and kinetic isotope effects—cause isotope fractionation. As a consequence of fractionation processes, waters and solutes often develop unique isotopic compositions (ratios of heavy to light isotopes) that may be indicative of their source or of the processes that formed them. 

Calculations of heavy atom kinetic isotope effect in phosphate monoester hydrolysis... 

Yiimaz, i.. Shine, H. J. Heavy-atom kinetic isotope effects in the base-cataiyzed Smiles rearrangement of N-methyi-2-(4-nitrophenoxy)ethanamine. Gazz. Chim. Ital. 1989, 119, 603-607. 

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