Oxidation-reduction mechanisms hydride transfer

The chemistry of the reduction of NAD+ has been solved most elegantly (Chapter 8, section Bi).2 Oxidation of the alcohol involves the removal of two hydrogen atoms. One is transferred directly to the 4 position of the nicotinamide ring of the NAD+, and the other is released as a proton (equation 16.1).3,4 It is generally thought that the hydrogen is transferred as a hydride ion H , but a radical intermediate cannot be ruled out. For convenience, we shall assume that the mechanism is the hydride transfer. 

The reduction of the pyrimidine to dihydropyrimidine is the reverse of the oxidation reaction carried out by DHODs. The structure of the FMN/pyrimidine-binding site is very similar to the structure of L. lactis DHODs. Three Asn residues form hydrogen bonds with the nitrogens and carbonyls of the pyrimidine analogous to DHODs. DPD has an active site cysteine proposed to act in acid/base chemistry similar to Class 1 DHODs. When mutated to alanine, only 1% of the wild-type activity was retained, indicating the importance of this residue in catalysis. Secondary tritium isotope effects using 5- H-uracil were determined in both H2O and D2O an inverse isotope effect was observed in H2O and the value became more inverse in D20. " This was taken as evidence of a stepwise mechanism in which hydride transfer to C6 is followed by protonation at C5. 

Aluminum methoxide Al(OMe)3 is a solid which sublimes at 240 °C in vacuum. Aluminum isopropoxide melts in the range 120-140 °C to a viscous liquid which readily supercools. When first prepared, spectroscopic and X-ray evidence indicates a trimeric structure which slowly transforms to a tetramer in which the central Al is octahedrally coordinated and the three peripheral units are tetrahedral.162,153 Intramolecular exchange of terminal and bridging groups, which is rapid in the trimeric form, becomes very slow in the tetramer. There is MS and other evidence that the tetramer maintains its identity in the vapour phase.164 Al[OCH(CF3)2]3 is more volatile than Al[OCH(Me)2]3 and the vapour consists of monomers.165 Aluminum alkoxides, particularly Al(OPr )3, have useful catalytic applications in the synthetic chemistry of aldehydes, ketones and acetals, e.g. in the Tishchenko reaction of aldehydes, in Meerwein-Pondorf-Verley reduction and in Oppenauer oxidation. The mechanism is believed to involve hydride transfer between RjHCO ligands and coordinated R2C=0— A1 groups on the same Al atom.1... 

However, these experiments may not have established a mechanism for natural flavoprotein catalysis because the properties of 5-deazaflavins resemble those of NAD+ more than of flavins.239 Their oxidation-reduction potentials are low, they do not form stable free radicals, and their reduced forms don t react readily with 02. Nevertheless, for an acyl-CoA dehydrogenase the rate of reaction of the deazaflavin is almost as fast as that of natural FAD.238 For these enzymes a hydride ion transfer from the (3 CH (reaction type D of Table 15-1) is made easy by removal of the a-H of the acyl-CoA to form an enolate anion intermediate. 

The enzyme-product complexes of the yeast enzyme dissociate rapidly so that the chemical steps are rate-determining.31 This permits the measurement of kinetic isotope effects on the chemical steps of this reaction from the steady state kinetics. It is found that the oxidation of deuterated alcohols RCD2OH and the reduction of benzaldehydes by deuterated NADH (i.e., NADD) are significantly slower than the reactions with the normal isotope (kn/kD = 3 to 5).21,31 This shows that hydride (or deuteride) transfer occurs in the rate-determining step of the reaction. The rate constants of the hydride transfer steps for the horse liver enzyme have been measured from pre-steady state kinetics and found to give the same isotope effects.32,33 Kinetic and kinetic isotope effect data are reviewed in reference 34 and the effects of quantum mechanical tunneling in reference 35. 

Pathways for oxidation reactions not involving covalent adducts or metal ions are radical in nature or involve hydride transfer. We have proposed the radical mechanisms of Scheme 4 (18, 19). Electrochemical calculations establish that the standard free energy of formation of the radicals FlH- and -CH2OH from FlH- and CH20 does not exceed the determined AG for reduction of CH20 by FlH-. The same con-... 

In the 1,4-dihydropyridine series, there has been much discussion on detailed mechanism. In a study of reduction of-cyanocinnamates with a 4,4-dideutero Hantzsch dihydropyridine, a product that was singly deuterated at only the benzylic position together with the oxidized pyridine product 503 was obtained. This seems to show that the mechanism involves hydride transfer from the 4-position of the 1,4-dihydropyridine followed by proton extraction from the nitrogen of the dihydropyridine <2000J(P2)1857>. 

The nicotinamide ring of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide can exist in both oxidized (NAD+) and reduced (NADH) forms, where the reduced form can be viewed as a double vinylogous amine, i.e. a double enamine. The hydrogen transfer from the C4 atom is widely believed to proceed by a hydride transfer mechanism, reminiscent of the mechanism of carbonyl reduction by metal hydrides. 

Mechanism The Wilkinson catalyst (6.9), a 6-electron complex, loses one or two triph-enylphosphine ligands and converts into a 14- or 12-electrons complex. The activation of hydrogen occurs by uptake on the metal complex catalyst via an oxidative addition. This is followed by ir-complexation of alkene to metal. Intramolecular hydride transfer and subsequent reductive elimination release the alkane and complete the cycle (Scheme 6.2). 

The first step in the catalytic cycle of flavocytochrome i>2 is the oxidation of L-lactate to pyruvate and the reduction of the flavin. Our understanding of how this occurs has been dominated by what can only be described as the dogma of the carbanion mechanism. Although this mechanism for flavoprotein catalysed substrate oxidations is accepted by many, doubts remain, and the alternative hydride transfer process cannot be ruled out. The carbanion mechanism has been extensively surveyed in the past, reviews by Lederer (1997 and 1991) and Ghisla and Massey (1989) are recommended, and for this reason there is little point in covering the same ground in the present article in any great detail. 

Figure 2 (a) Proposed hydride transfer mechanism for substrate oxidation in MCAD. (b) Proposed polar nucleophilic mechanism for the reductive half-reaction in MAO. 

DAAO is one of the most extensively studied flavoprotein oxidases. The homodimeric enzyme catalyzes the strictly stere-ospecihc oxidative deamination of neutral and hydrophobic D-amino acids to give a-keto acids and ammonia (Fig. 3a). In the reductive half-reaction the D-amino acid substrate is converted to the imino acid product via hydride transfer (21). During the oxidative half-reaction, the imino acid is released and hydrolyzed. Mammalian and yeast DAAO share the same catalytic mechanism, but they differ in kinetic mechanism, catalytic efficiency, substrate specificity, and protein stability. The dimeric structures of the mammalian enzymes show a head-to-head mode of monomer-monomer interaction, which is different from the head-to-tail mode of dimerization observed in Rhodotorula gracilis DAAO (20). Benzoate is a potent competitive inhibitor of mammalian DAAO. Binding of this ligand strengthens the apoenzyme-flavin interaction and increases the conformational stability of the porcine enzyme. 

Homer and Balzer had earlier reported 32) that reduction of optically active phosphine oxides with either trichlorosilane (HSiCls), HSiClj/pyridine, or HSiCls/N, N-diethylaniline affords phosphines with overall retention of configuration, whereas reduction with HSiCls/triethylamine affords phosphine with inversion of configuration at phosphorus. In summary, it was suggested 32) that this difference in overall stereochemistry of reduction reflected a difference in the mode of hydride transfer from silicon to phosphorus intra- and intermolecular hydride transfer led to retention and inversion, respectively. The essential features of these mechanistic rationalizations are represented by Eq. (3). The intramolecular hydride transfer mechanism ), which may include pseudorotation (see Sect. 3) if intermediate phospho-HSiClj + O=PR3 - 0 PRj PRj + [ClsSiOH]... 

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