Schiff-base adduct formation

One potential mechanism by which a-halofatty aldehydes could elicit functional changes in targeted cells would be through Schiff-base adduct formation with primary amines of proteins and lipids. This is particularly important since Schiff-base adduct formation could potentially alter membrane dynamics and protein function. 2-Chlorohexadecanal Schiff-base adducts with ethanolamine glycero-phospholipids and lysine have been identified (Wildsmith et al. 2006). In these... 

The formation of adducts through a Schiff base mechanism was the basis to assess the reactivity of the seven model compounds with this new technique. The reactivity index generated with our method was consistent with those reported by Benet et al. [26] and Bolze et al. [27] (Table 10.3), which validated this technique to evaluate AG reactivity. Schiff base adducts of AGs and proteins were obtained from the literature for TOL, ZOM, and DCL... 

Fig. 2.3 Reaction of IsoK/LG with primary amines to form stable adducts. Primary amines including lysine react with IsoK/LGs to form a hemiaminal adduct. Unlike most aldehydes which can only form the highly reversible Schiff base adduct, the hemiaminal adduct of y-ketoaldehydes can undergo a second nucleophilic attack to form a pyrrolidine adduct which dehydrates to form an irreversible pyrrole adduct. In the presence of oxygen, the pyrrole is converted to lactam and hydroxylactam adducts. Oxidation of the pyrrole leads to formation of stable crosslinked species...

The reductive half-reaction of methylamine dehydrogenase is shown in Scheme 10. The methylamine substrate initiates a nucleophilic attack on the quinone carbon at the C6 position of the TTQ cofactor displacing the oxygen to form a substrate-TTQ Schiff base adduct (29). The reactivity of the C6 position was demonstrated by covalent adduct formation at this position by hydrazines which are inactivators of methylamine dehydrogenase. Deprotonation of the substrate-derived carbon of 29 by an active-site amino acid residue results in reduction of the cofactor and yields an intermediate in which the Schiff base is now between the nitrogen and substrate-derived carbon (30). Hydrolysis of 30 releases the formaldehyde product and yields the aminoquinol form of the cofactor with the substrate-derived amino group still covalently bound (31). 

Figure 13.7. Formation of Michael addition and Schiff base adducts by interaction of 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal with amino residue of proteins.

Formation of the adduct with dirhodium complex [6] has significantly changed the chemical shift of the compounds in which proton transfer occurred, for example, for the adduct of iV-(5-nitrosalicylidene)-2-ami nobutane, the chemical shift was —198.2, which was shielded by of 110 ppm in comparison to that in the starting Schiff base.12 The large signal shift was due to the shift of the proton transfer equilibrium towards NH tautomer. For the adduct of N-(salicylidene)-2-aminobutane, existing in the OH-form, the 15N chemical shift has changed from —87.5 to — 84.6 ppm. 

The position of the proton transfer equilibrium for the Schiff bases being derivatives of rac-2-aminobutane [24] or rac-a-methylbenzylamine [25] and their adducts with dirhodium complex has been estimated in CDCI3 solution on the basis of measurements of deuterium isotope effects on 15N chemical shift.12 It was shown that adduct formation significantly influenced the position of the equilibrium which was manifested by AN(D) values. 

Formaldehyde fixes proteins in tissue by reacting with basic amino acids— such as lysine,5 7—to form methylol adducts. These adducts can form crosslinks through Schiff base formation. Both intra- and intermolecular cross-links are formed,8 which may destroy enzymatic activity and often immunoreactiv-ity. These formaldehyde-induced modifications reduce protein extraction efficiency and may also lead to the misidentification of proteins during proteomic analysis. 

Also, Bose et al. [76] have shown that the steric course of /J-lactam formation can be influenced by the MW heating rate. For example, in the reaction of the benzoylox-yacetyl chloride 53 with the Schiff base 54 (Scheme 4.28) the cis adduct 55 is the main product at low irradiation power whereas high power favors the formation of the trans adduct 56. Lactams of this type can serve as intermediates for the side chain oftaxol and its analogs. 

A further remarkable finding in the hydrolysis of aflatoxin B1 exo-8,9-epoxide is the relative instability of the dihydrodiol, which under basic conditions exists in equilibrium with an aflatoxin dialdehyde, more precisely a furofuran-ring-opened oxy anionic a-hydroxy dialdehyde (10.134, Fig. 10.30). The dihydrodiol is the predominant or exclusive species at pH < 7, whereas this is true for the dialdehyde at pH >9, the pK value of the equilibrium being 8.2 [204], The dialdehyde is known to form Schiff bases with primary amino groups leading to protein adducts. However, the slow rate of dialdehyde formation at physiological pH and its reduction by rat and human aldo-keto reductases cast doubts on the toxicological relevance of this pathway [206]. 

The formation of bicycles 88 occurred through the iminium intermediate 89, in the similar manner as Ugi-reaction. But in contrast to the four-component classical Ugi-reaction, the protonated Schiff base 89, containing both nucleophilic and electrophilic centers, undergoes [4+1] cycloaddition with isonitrile to the bicyclic adduct 90 followed by rearomatization via 1,3-H shift (Scheme 39). 

Niobium and tantalum halides form adducts with various nitrogen donor ligands including aliphatic and aromatic amines nitriles, Schiffs bases and imidazoles (Table 5). The reactions of MXS with pyridine and related ligands such as bipy or phen depend critically on the reaction conditions. With py at low temperature MX5 (X = Cl, Br) yielded 1 1 adducts that are rapidly reduced to [MX4(py)2] on increasing the temperature, with formation of l-(4-pyridyl)pyridinium halide. Similarly, bipy and phen reduced the metal in MeCN to oxidation state +IV and formed monoadducts of type [MX bipy)] at room temperature, while at 0°C the same reactions yielded [NbCls(bipy)(MeCN)] and [TaX5(bipy)(MeCN)J (X = C1 or Br). NbBrs and Tals formed [MX5(bipy)2], which were formulated as the eight-coordinate [MX4(bipy)2]X.1 Reduction of the metal can however be prevented, even at room temperature,... 

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