Tautomeric tautomerization dynamics

The process of mutation by tautomerization is similar to the excited-state process described here. If a misprint induced by a tautomer takes place during replication, then an error is recorded. Because reaction path calculations of DNA base pairs show similar potential-energy characteristics to those discussed here, we anticipate being able to explore the relevance of tautomerization dynamics to mutagenesis. In this area, we are currently examining these and other systems, also in solutions. 

Three alkyl derivatives of porphycene, lb, Ic, and le have also been studied using CPMAS NMR [71]. As in the case of parent 1, the tautomerization was found to be so rapid that the rate constants could not be determined from the line shape analysis. It was thus not possible to establish a correlation between the cavity parameters and tautomerization dynamics, lb and Ic revealed narrow doublets, whereas le showed one line that did not broaden, even at 173 K. le has the largest N- N distance among porphycenes and should therefore exhibit the weak-... 

Coupling of electronic and nuclear motion in tautomerization dynamics... 

The vast majority of papers devoted to tautomerization dynamics deal with ESIPT reactions. Since Weller s suggestion that the large Stokes shift he measured for salicyhc acid fluorescence was caused by rapid proton transfer in the excited state [62], and the development of techniques to study this on a femtosecond timescale, the field has blossomed. Most of the 2000 papers on tautomerization dynamics is on ESIPT, from both an experimental and a theoretical point of view. The number of compounds exhibiting ESIPT is far too large to discuss here. It ranges from molecules as simple as malonaldehyde to systems as complicated as 3-hydroxyflavone or 2-(2 -hydroxyphenyl)benzothiazole. In particular, substituted salicylic acids and ortho-hydroxybenzaldehydes have attracted much attention from both experimentalists and theoreticians. Weller s idea is depicted in Figure 1.10. 

A good quantum chemical theory of tautomeric equilibrium and tautomerization dynamics is still a long way ofif Fully understanding the process of proton transfer should lead to a fundamental insight into the nature of the interaction between quantum and classical systems. Further experimental and theoretical study of tautomeric equilibrium and tautomerization dynamics is a possible pathway to enhghtenment. 

In 1955 Boyer d al challenged this formulation, and suggested a static, mesomeric system rather than a dynamic, tautomeric one, with Contributing structures of type 9 and 10 to a symmetrical resonance hybrid, proposing the name -o-dinitrosobenzene for the parent System. This notion, however, raised more problems than it solved,... 

Similar considerations apply to nitrogen-containing heterocycles carrying acidic groups, for example 2-hydroxypteridine, but the situation is further complicated by lactam-lactim tautomerism in the neutral species. Thus, hydroxypteridines exist predominantly as lactams, such as 6, in dynamic equilibrium with small amounts of lactims, such as 7. There is, in consequence, a decrease in the aromatic... 

Tautomeric compounds as guest included in a host (static or dynamic)... 

Examples of dynamic processes involving two, three, or four identical tautomers (degenerate or autotrope annular tautomerism) have been found in pyrazoles (type 2 of Table VII). Thus, 3,5-diphenyl-4-bromopyr-azole and 3,5-di-ferf-butylpyrazole (dimers), 3,5-dimethyl-pyrazole (trimer). 

It must be emphasized that all time-dependent chemical phenomena, such as tautomerism, are sensitive to temperature changes. In this section, we treat classic DNMR (dynamic NMR) studies and cases of changes in the NMR spectra with temperature together. In Table XI we have classified these studies according to the physical state of the sample and to the nuclei... 

Accounting for this effect, it was possible to apply dynamic NMR spectroscopy to measure energy barriers to the prototropic rearrangements of pyrazoles. Temperature-variable spectra of a series of 4-substituted pyra-zoles 5 and 6 have been studied in methanol-d4 solutions and the free energy barriers of the degenerate type 2a 2b tautomerization reported (93CJC1443). 

Here Y—H is the tautomeric form with tfie smaller, and X—H that with the larger, dynamic acidity. 

Khandogin J, Brooks CL III (2005) Constant pH molecular dynamics with proton tautomerism. Biophys J 89 141-157. 

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