Thiols, reactions with

Some limitations of the method arise due to side reactions involving the nitroxide. However, such problems can usually be avoided by the correct choice of nitroxide and reaction conditions. Nitroxides, while stable in the presence of most monomers, may act as oxidants or rcductants under suitable reaction conditions.516 The induced decomposition of certain initiators (e.g. diacyl peroxides) can be a problem (Scheme 3.94).166 177 There is some evidence that nitroxides may disproportionate with alkoxy radicals bearing a-hydrogens,123 Side reactions with thiols have also been identified.4 18... 

The thiol shows a preference to react w ith propagating radicals with a tenninal S unit (Scheme 7.21). This selectivity is due both to chemospecificity in the reaction with thiol and to the relative concentrations of the various propagating species (determined by the reactivity ratios). 

This reaction is analogous to 10-7. It may be acid (including Lewis acids),base, or alumina catalyzed, occur with electrolysis, and may occur by either an SnI or Sn2 mechanism. Many of the P-hydroxy ethers produced in this way are valuable solvents, for example, diethylene glycol, Cellosolve, and so on. Reaction with thiols leads to hydroxy thioethers. Aziridines can similarly be converted to P-amino ethers. 

Catalytic hydrogenation with platinum liberates the hydrocarbon from methylcobalamin (57) and from alkyl-Co-DMG complexes (161), but not from pentacyanides with primary alkyl, vinyl, or benzyl ligands, though the cr-allyl complex yields propylene (109). Sodium sand gives mixtures of hydrocarbons with the alkyl-Co-salen complexes (64). Dithioerythritol will liberate methane from a variety of methyl complexes [cobalamin, DMG, DMG-BF2, G, DPG, CHD, salen, and (DO)(DOH)pn] (156), as will 1,4-butanedithiol from the DMG complex (157), and certain unspecified thiols will reduce DMG complexes with substituted alkyl ligands (e.g., C0-CH2COOH ->CH3C00H) (163, 164). Reaction with thiols can also lead to the formation of thioethers (see Section C,3). 

Fig. 7 Transformation of weak fluorescent probe 31 to the strongly fluorescent product upon reaction with thiol...

Formation of the thioamidate of the pyrimidine-acetonitrile 233 followed by reaction with thiol-acetic acid 234 gave elegant and efficient formation of the five-membered ring 235 in 82% yield (Equation 64) <2001JOC4723>. 

Figure 18.7 BM(PEG)2 reaction with thiol-containing proteins forms crosslinks via thioether linkages.

Bis(benzotriazol-lyl)methanethione 974 is easily prepared from thiophosgene and l-(trimethylsilyl)benzotriazole <1978JOC337>. In reactions with thiols and triethylamine, thiones 974 are converted to derivatives 973 in modest yields the main side products result from nucleophilic attacks of the thiolate anions on the thione sulfur atom to produce disulfides <2005JOC7866>. In reactions with amines, compounds 974 are smoothly converted to l-(thiocarbamoyl)benzotriazoles 975 <2004JOC2976>. Substitution of one of the benzotriazolyl groups in 974 by phenolate anions yields l-(aryloxythioacyl)benzotriazoles 978 (Scheme 161) <2005JOC7866>. 

However, the reaction of NP with thiols may be a necessary but not sufficient cause for the release of NO from the ion as there are many thiols in frog heart tissue and NP is a vasodilator only under illumination. Furthermore Sogo et al. [50] could not detect NO generation from NP in human plasma containing cysteine, glutathione, homocysteine and reduced cysteine residues. Therefore, there must be a unique component of mammalian tissues which is involved in the release of NO from NP, and this reaction comes after reaction with thiol. Kowaluk et al. [51] report that NP is readily metabolised to NO in subcellular fractions of bovine coronary arterial smooth muscle and that the dominant site of metabolism is in the membrane fraction. This led to the isolation of a small membrane-bound protein or enzyme that can convert NP into NO. The mechanism shown in Scheme 8.2 combines the thiol reaction and that with an enzyme. 

Kusumoto and coworkers have found that the treatment of hemiacetal 1 with trifluoro- or trichloroacetic anhydride 94 (1 equiv) and trimethylsilyl perchlorate (0.2 equiv) selectively provides the corresponding anomeric ester intermediate 91 [152], Hemiacetal acylation occurs even in the presence of the alcohol acceptor. With Lewis acid assistance, the glycosyl ester intermediate is displaced to provide disaccharide products in good yields. This transformation allowed the synthesis of disaccharides 98 (81%) and 99 (91%). In some cases, acetic anhydride has been used as the electrophilic activator of hemiacetal donors and the reaction with thiol acceptors yields S-linked glycosides [153,154],... 

The two examples from our work we are going to describe below are the design and study of liposomal diepitope constructs combining either (i) B and T-helper (Th) peptide epitopes, which induced particularly powerful humoral responses (21) (Fig. 3) or (ii) CTL and Th epitopes, which provided a powerful antitumor vaccine (74) (Fig. 4). For the production of these constructs we have conjugated peptides that contain a cysteine residue either at the N- or C-terminus, to the surface of preformed liposomes by reaction with thiol reactive functionalized phospholipids and/or PamaCys lipopeptide anchors (Fig. 2). To that end, we have developed strategies that give, in aqueous media, high... 

The kinetics of the reaction of 2 -deoxyuridin-L-yl radicals (11) with thiols, with superoxide release from the peroxyl radical (13) generated, have been reported. Radical (11) is produced by photolysis of precursor (10). When the radical is produced in the presence of thiols, (12) is formed. Second-order kinetics were found for the reactions with thiols. Peroxyl radical (13) is formed in the presence of oxygen. This undergoes heterolytic fragmentation to the superoxide anion O2 and cation (14), which ultimately leads to 2-deoxyribonolactone (15). 

The theoretical properties of model 237 as well as the preferred mode of reaction with thiols can be rationalized in terms of the lower electronegativity of sulfur (2.5) as compared to nitrogen (3.0) and oxygen (3.5). In this case, the combined electronegativity of oxygen and sulfur appears to be insufficient to overcome the stabilization gained from amide resonance. 

Labelling Chemistry and Sequencing. The two main groups for labelling proteins are amine reactive and thiol reactive. For reaction with the amino groups in proteins the fluorophore is converted into the succinimidyl ester derivative by reaction with iV-hydroxysuccinimide, e.g. (3.74), and for reaction with thiols group this is achieved by making iodoacetamide or maleimide derivatives, e.g. (3.75). 

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