Structure dependence in the solvolysis kinetics of amino acid esters
โ Scribed by John Haseltine; Jason W. Runyon
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 190 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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โฆ Synopsis
To better understand acyl transfer reactions of oligopeptides, seventeen N-acyl amino acid esters were solvolyzed in mildly basic methanol-d 4 . All show pseudo-first-order kinetics by 1 H NMR. The rate constant varies up to 400-fold with the identity of the amino acid and up to 6200-fold with the identity of the N-acyl group. The impact of the N-acyl group on the rate constant is discussed in terms of crowding, amide conformation, and amide C@O bond character.
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A statistical analysis was performed to determine to what extent an amino acid determines the identity of its neighbors and to what extent this is determined by the structural environment. Log-linear analysis was used to discriminate chance occurrence from statistically meaningful correlations. The