Side-chain hydroxyl group

A side chain hydroxyl group in 5//-pyrido[l,2,3-de]-l,4-benzoxazin-5-one was changed for chloro atom by treatment with SOCE at room temperature for 16h (98M1P13). 

Omission of the side chain hydroxyl group from molecules based on epinephrine or ephedrine does not abolish the sympathomimetic activity of the resulting compounds. Many of these agents exert a considerable stimulant action on the central nervous system. As such, drugs in this class have been widely used—and... 

The mechanism of catalysis by these enzymes has been extensively investigated (for review see ref. 10). Essentially, the active site serine via its side chain hydroxyl group performs a nucleophilic attack on the carbonyl carbon of the scissile peptide bond thus forming a tetrahedral intermediate. A histidine residue in the active site serves as a general base accepting the proton from the serine residue. The acyl enzyme thus formed is broken down via a nucleophilic attack of a water molecule to complete the hydrolysis of the peptide bond. 

The side chain is either the unchanged isopropylaminoethanol seen in isoproterenol or an aryloxy-aminopropanol. The side-chain hydroxyl groups are essential to activity. 

As an example of the first type of chiral effect, metabolism of the drug bufuralol may be considered. Hydroxy la tion in the V position only occurs with the (+) isomer, whereas for hydroxylation in positions 4 and 6, the (—) isomer is the preferred substrate (Fig. 5.3). Glucuronidation of the side chain hydroxyl group is specific for the (+) isomer. A further complication in human subjects is that the 1-hydroxylation is under genetic control, being dependent on the debrisoquine hydroxylator status (see below). The selectivity for the isomers for the hydroxylations is virtually abolished in poor metabolizers. 

From study of peptides formed by partial hydrolysis of the 32P-labeled chymotrypsin, the sequence of amino acids surrounding the reactive serine was established and serine 195 was identified as the residue whose side chain hydroxyl group became phosphorylated. The same sequence Gly-Asp-Ser-Gly was soon discovered around reactive serine residues in trypsin, thrombin, elastase, and in the trypsin-like cocoonase used by silkmoths to escape from their cocoons.198 We know now that these are only a few of the enzymes in a very large family of serine proteases, most of which have related active site sequences.199 200 Among these are thrombin and other enzymes of the blood-clotting cascade (Fig. 12-17), proteases of lysosomes, and secreted proteases. 

G. CijHjjNOj,—, 178°C, miz 251(26), 250(45), 162(100), 160(40). 2D. H2 derivative. Reduction may have been incomplete. Tentative structure a congener of 235C with an additional side-chain hydroxyl group. 

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