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On the Position of the Intramolecular Equilibrium between Opened and Aromatic-Ring Stacked Forms in Ternary Complexes Composed of Adenosine 5′-triphosphate, Mg2+ or Zn2+, and L-Tryptophanate, and in Related Ternary Systems

✍ Scribed by Paul R. Mitchell; Bernard Prijs; Helmut Sigel


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1979
Tongue
German
Weight
711 KB
Volume
62
Category
Article
ISSN
0018-019X

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Abstract

The intramolecular and dimensionless equilibrium constant, K′, for the equilibrium between open and aromatic‐ring stacked isomers of ternary complexes formed between adenosine 5′‐triphosphate, inosine 5′‐triphosphate, or uridine 5′‐triphosphate, Mg^2+^ or Zn^2+^, and L‐tryptophanate, 2,2′‐bipyridyl (bipy), or 1,10‐phenanthroline (phen) have been estimated by ^1^H‐NMR. shift measurements in D~2~O (I = 0.1M, NaNO~3~; 27°). The approximate equilibrium constants K′ are ≥ 20, ≥ 20, 1.2, 0.9, 0.7, 0.5, and 0.3 for the ternary complexes Zn (phen) (ATP)^2−^, Mg (phen) (ATP)^2−^, Zn (bipy) (ATP)^2−^, Zn (bipy) (ITP)^2−^, Zn (bipy) (UTP)^2−^, Zn (trp) (ATO) ^3−^, and Mg (trp) (ATP)^3−^, respectively. The percentages of the stacked isomers decrease in the order Zn (phen) (ATP)^2−^ (≥ 95%) ≫ Zn (bipy) (ATP)^2−^ (55%) > Zn (bipy) (ITP)^2−^ (48%) > Zn (bipy) (UTP)^2−^ (∼ 40%), which coincides with the order of stability of the binary metal‐free adducts (phen) (ATP)^4−^ > (bipy) (ATP)^4−^ ≃ (bipy) (ITP)^4−^ > (bipy) (UTP)^4−^; the corresponding stability constants are K = 28.2 ± 4.7, 8.1 ± 2.6, 8.8 ± 1.8, and ∼ 1 (M^−1^), respectively (D~2~O; I = 0.1 M, NaNO~3~; 27°): these series reflect the decreasing size of the aromatic‐ring systems forming the stacks. The indole moiety of tryptophan resembles 2,2′‐bipyridyl rather than 1,10‐phenanthroline and K = 6.2 ± 1.8 M^−1^ for (trp) (ATP)^4−^. Implications with respect to the stability of ternary complexes, and to biological systems are indicated briefly.