Thioester thiol

Thioesters undergo the same kinds of reactions as esters and by similar mechanisms Nucleophilic acyl substitution of a thioester gives a thiol along with the product of acyl transfer For example... 

Thioester (Section 20 13) An S acyl denvative of a thiol a compound of the type... 

Miscellaneous Curing Reactions. Other functional groups can react with the thiol terminal groups of the polysulfides to cross-link the polymer chains and build molecular weight. For example, aldehydes can form thioacetals and water. Organic and inorganic acids or esters can form thioesters. Active dienes such as diacrylates can add to the thiols (3). Examples of these have been mentioned in the Hterature, but none have achieved... 

Orthoesters, RC(OR )2 (1), thioesters, RCSOR ( A) Sulfur compounds Thiols), and carbamates, H2NCOOR, are not covered in this review. 

The thiation procedure described here is an example of a general synthetic method for the conversion of carbonyl to thiocarbonyl groups. Similar transformations have been carried out with ketones, carboxamides,esters,thioesters, 1 actones, " thiol actones, - imides, enaminones, and protected peptides. ... 

The final step in the /3-oxidation cycle is the cleavage of the /3-ketoacyI-CoA. This reaction, catalyzed by thiolase (also known as j8-ketothiolase), involves the attack of a cysteine thiolate from the enzyme on the /3-carbonyI carbon, followed by cleavage to give the etiolate of acetyl-CoA and an enzyme-thioester intermediate (Figure 24.17). Subsequent attack by the thiol group of a second CoA and departure of the cysteine thiolate yields a new (shorter) acyl-CoA. If the reaction in Figure 24.17 is read in reverse, it is easy to see that it is a Claisen condensation—an attack of the etiolate anion of acetyl-CoA on a thioester. Despite the formation of a second thioester, this reaction has a very favorable A).q, and it drives the three previous reactions of /3-oxidation. 

FIGURE 24.17 The mechanism of the thiolase reaction. Attack by an enzyme cysteine thiolate group at the /3-carbonyl carbon produces a tetrahedral intermediate, which decomposes with departure of acetyl-CoA, leaving an enzyme thioester intermediate. Attack by the thiol group of a second CoA yields a new (shortened) acyl-CoA. 

Acyl CoA s, such as acetyl CoA, are the most common thioesters in nature. Coenzyme A, abbreviated CoA, is a thiol formed by a phosphoric anhydride linkage (0 = P—O—P=0) between phosphopantetheine and adenosine 3, 5 -bisphosphate. (The prefix "bis" means "two" and indicates that adenosine 3, 5 -bisphosphate has two phosphate groups, one on C3 and one on C5. ) Reaction of coenzyme A with an acyl phosphate or acyl adenylate... 

Naming, acid anhydrides—cont d prostaglandins, 1069 sulfides, 668 thioesters. 787 thiols, 667... 

Lithium aluminum hydride reduces most sulfur compounds with cleavage of the C—S bond, including thiols. " Thioesters can be reduced with Ni2B (from NiBr2/... 

The stable P-unsubstituted phosphinous amide H2PN(SiMe3)2 has been shown to suffer the nucleophilic displacement of the disilazane moiety by the action of thiols R-SH giving the phosphinous thioesters R-S-PH2 [13]. For the sake of brevity we shall not comment on other relevant reactions of AT-silyl phosphinous amides, such as the anionic P-silylation [115] and P-alkylation [22], the consecutive dialkylation of PH derivatives [18] and the fluorodesily-lation of P-fluoro-JV-silyl derivatives [140]. 

Pioneering work involving the combinahon of an organosulfide, a C-C unsaturated organic compound and a transihon metal catalyst was reported by Reppe in 1953, in which Ni(CO)4-catalyzed hydrothiocarboxylahori of alkyne or ethylene by thiol and CO was briefly described to give the corresponding thioesters 1 or 2 (an application of one of the so-called Reppe reachons) (Eqs. 7.1 and 7.2) [12, 13]. 

Although these reactions indicated the great potenhal of transihon metal-catalyzed reachons of organosulfides with C-C unsaturated organic compounds, little attenhon has been paid to such a combination of reactions for many years since then. In 1960, Holmquist and Carnaham reported the Co-catalyzed reachon of thiol with CO (1000 atm) at 250-300°C to afford thioester 3 in up to 46% yield with ca. 1-5 wt% of catalyst (Eq. 7.3) [14]. 

If vinylogous imidazole-A-carboxylates (route A) are treated with nucleophiles such as alkoxides or amines, the corresponding vinylogous carbonic esters or amides are obtained. While reaction of the vinylogous imidazole-TV-carboxylate with a thiol (route A) yields the addition product only, that of the corresponding imidazolium compound (route B) leads to the carbonic thioester in a substitution reaction [3]... 

Thiol esters undergo smooth reduction to give aldehydes by the Fukuyama hydrosilylation procedure, which is an alternative way to transform carboxylic acids to aldehydes. Upon treatment with Et3SiH and 10% Pd/C, a thioester underwent smooth reduction to give an aldehyde.409,410 For example, to a stirred mixture of thioester and Pd/C in acetone may be added Et3SiH at room temperature under an Ar atmosphere. Stirring is continued until the hydrogenolysis is complete (0.5-1 h) (Scheme 4.117). 

How could this problem be solved Only traces of thioesters are formed from free carboxylic acid and thiols in aqueous solution, i.e., the equilibrium reaction 7.15 is shifted to the left. According to de Duve (1991), there are two possibilities for spontaneous thioester synthesis under conditions present on the primeval Earth ... 

From the oxidative synthesis of thioesters from aldehyde and thiol ... 

The thioester hypothesis can be summed up as follows the formation of thiols was possible, for example, in volcanic environments (either above ground or submarine). Carboxylic acids and their derivatives were either formed in abiotic syntheses or arrived on Earth from outer space. The carboxylic acids reacted under favourable conditions with thiols (i.e., Fe redox processes due to the sun s influence, at optimal temperatures and pH values) to give energy-rich thioesters, from which polymers were formed these in turn (in part) formed membranes. Some of the thioesters then reacted with inorganic phosphate (Pi) to give diphosphate (PPi). Transphosphorylations led to various phosphate esters. AMP and other nucleoside monophosphates reacted with diphosphate to give the nucleoside triphosphates, and thus the RNA world (de Duve, 1998). In contrast to Gilbert s RNA world, the de Duve model represents an RNA world which was either supported by the thioester world, or even only made possible by it. 

Arthur L. Weber (1998), now working at the Seti Institute of the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, reports the successful synthesis of amino acid thioesters from formose substrates (formaldehyde and glycolaldehyde) and ammonia synthesis of alanine and homoserine was possible when thiol catalysts were added to the reaction mixture. On the basis of his experimental results, Weber (1998) suggests the process shown in Fig. 7.10 to be a general prebiotic route to amino acid thioesters. 

The protocol for using isobaric tags differs from that described previously for the ICAT or ECAT type reagents. In the following method, the proteins are denatured and the disulfides reduced and then alkylated to block them permanently. This eliminates disulfide re-association and also prevents the isobaric tags from forming thioester modification with cysteine thiols. Next, the proteins are digested with trypsin and then modified with an isobaric tag. Each sample is labeled with a different isobaric compound so that the samples can be differentiated upon MS/MS analysis. 

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