Phosphate transesterification

Diphenyl phosphates are converted by transesterification to dibenzyl phosphates upon treatment with BnONa in THF at 25° in 83% yield. ... 

The development of monoalkyl phosphate as a low skin irritating anionic surfactant is accented in a review with 30 references on monoalkyl phosphate salts, including surface-active properties, cutaneous effects, and applications to paste and liquid-type skin cleansers, and also phosphorylation reactions from the viewpoint of industrial production [26]. Amine salts of acrylate ester polymers, which are physiologically acceptable and useful as surfactants, are prepared by transesterification of alkyl acrylate polymers with 4-morpholinethanol or the alkanolamines and fatty alcohols or alkoxylated alkylphenols, and neutralizing with carboxylic or phosphoric acid. The polymer salt was used as an emulsifying agent for oils and waxes [70]. Preparation of pharmaceutical liposomes with surfactants derived from phosphoric acid is described in [279]. Lipid bilayer vesicles comprise an anionic or zwitterionic surfactant which when dispersed in H20 at a temperature above the phase transition temperature is in a micellar phase and a second lipid which is a single-chain fatty acid, fatty acid ester, or fatty alcohol which is in an emulsion phase, and cholesterol or a derivative. 

Compound 10 has also been used to quantify double Lewis acid activation by two cobalt (HI) ions [37]. In 12, the RNA analogue 2-hydroxypropyl-phenyl phosphate (HPPP) is coordinated to the dinu-clear cobalt site. It is well known that in this substrate the hydroxypropyl group is an efficient intramolecular nucleophile. Release of phenol by intramolecular cyclization is much faster than the reaction by nucleophilic attack of bridging oxide, as observed in 11. At pH >8, transesterification rate is linearly dependent on hydroxide concentration since OH" acts as an intermolecular base for the deprotonation of the hydroxypropyl group. The second order rate constant for the hydroxide-dependent cleavage is 4 x 105 times larger than the second-order rate constant for the hydroxide-dependent spontaneous transesterification of hy-droxypropyl-phenyl phosphate. 

In spite of the above mentioned Co(EII) compounds, kinetically labile metal complexes may provide fast product/substrate exchange and some of these systems show real catalytic activity. In native dinuclear phosphatases Mg(II), Mn(II), Fe(II/III), or Zn(II) ions are present in the active centers. Although the aqua complexes of the weakest Lewis acids, Mg(H) and Mn(II), show measurable acceleration of e.g. the transesterification of 2-hydroxypropyl p-nitrophenyl phosphate HPNP, [Mn(II)] = 0.004 M, kobs/ uncat = 73 at pH 7 and 310 K, [38] or the hydrolysis of S -uridyluridine (UpU) [39], only a few structural [40] but no functional phosphatase-mimicking dinuclear complexes have been reported with these metal ions. 

Transesterifications, of neutral carboxylate and organophosphate esters with transition metal ion and Ln3+ catalysts, 284-288 alcoholysis of carboxylate esters, 288-294 alcoholysis of neutral phosphate esters, 294-308... 

Transesterification of PET/PC blends can lead to copious gas evolution (carbon dioxide). To suppress transesterification of binary polyesters, inhibitors such as inorganic phosphates can be added. 

Orthophosphoric and benzylphosphonic acids have been selectively alkylated with triethyl phosphite in a new synthesis of mono-, di-, and triethyl phosphates and of mono- and di-methyl phosphonates.62 A-Methylol carboxamides and sulphonamides react with trialkyl phosphites to give the phosphonate derivatives (78) and (80), respectively.63 However, the mechanism appears to be quite different in each case while the carboamides react by a transesterification-rearrange-ment pathway, the sulphonamides undergo elimination-addition via the imine (79). 

Although most of these early reactions were conducted with allylic acetates, reactions of allylic carbonates, trifluoroacetates, and phosphates also occur. Sodium diethylmalonate also reacts with allylic alcohols in the presence of the iridium-triphenylphosphite catalyst. However, the alcohol itself does not act as a leaving group. Instead, transesterification occurs with one equivalent of malonate nucleophile to form a more labile ester leaving group. 

The deprotection procedure is based on transesterification of benzyl phosphate into the corresponding silyl ester followed by hydrolysis or alcoholysis. 

Figure 3.8 (a), (b) Initial rates of subtilisin Carlsberg-catalyzed transesterification of N-Ac-L-Phe-OEt with n-PrOH in hexane as a function of active enzyme in different salt-enzyme preparations. Catalyst composition (a) 98% (w/w) KCl, 1% (w/w) SC, and 1% phosphate buffer (average of three preparations), (b) 99% (w/w) subtilisin and 1% phosphate buffer (average of five preparations) [99]. 

Ibe principle found for zinc(II) was applied to ) complex models by Young et al. (25). The hydroxyl function of copper complex 27a deprotonates with a p value of 8.8 to yield 27b, which cleaves phosphodiester bis(2,4-dinitrophenyl) phosphate (BDP ) by transesterification to produce 28 ( (BDP ) = 7.2 x -1 M-1sec-1 at 25°C see Scheme 5). The analogous complex with a hydroxyethyl pendent cleaves the diester predominantly by hydrolysis, which suggests that the reactive species is not Cun-alkoxide, but —OH-. The rate A(BDP") of... 

In order to reduce the time needed to perform a complete kinetic resolution Lindner et al53 reported the use of the allylic alcohol 30 in enantiomerically enriched form rather than a racemic mixture in kinetic resolution. Thus, the kinetic resolution of 30 was performed starting from the enantiomerically enriched alcohol (R) or (S)-30 (45%) ee obtained by the ruthenium-catalyzed asymmetric reduction of 32 with the aim to reach 100 % ee in a consecutive approach. Several lipases were screened in resolving the enantiomerically enriched 30 either in the enantioselective transesterification of (<5)-30 (45% ee) using isopropenyl acetate as an acyl donor in toluene in non-aqueous medium or in the enantioselective hydrolysis of the corresponding acetate (R)-31, (45% ee) using a phosphate buffer (pH = 6) in aqueous medium. An E value of 300 was observed and the reaction was terminated after 3 h yielding (<5)-30 > 99% ee and the ester (R)-31 was recovered with 86% ee determined by capillary GC after 50 % conversion. 

Many artificial systems have been designed recently to imitate the function and behaviour of native enzymes - biomimetic chemistry [27]. Among them, calixarene-based receptors bearing one, two or three Zn(II) complexes on the upper rim were prepared as a model for phosphoesterases [28-31]. Dinuclear receptor 25 was reported to enhance the rate of transesterification of the RNA model substrate 2-hydroxypropyl-p-nitrophenyl phosphate more than 20,000 times compared with the non-catalysed reaction. The complexation mode for the phosphate anion can be described as cascade complexation where the anion is coordinated within the cavity formed by two zinc cations. 

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