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Synthesis of a Dinuclear ZnII–Calix[4]arene Enzyme Model with Additional General Base Groups – Catalytic Activity in Phosphate Diester Transesterification

✍ Scribed by Peter Molenveld; Johan F. J. Engbersen; David N. Reinhoudt


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
358 KB
Volume
1999
Category
Article
ISSN
1434-193X

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✦ Synopsis


Calix [4]arenes modified at the upper rim with two pairs of p-nitrophenyl phosphate (HPNP). The kinetics of 3-Zn 2 were compared with a mononuclear complex 1-Zn and a dinuclear functional groups were synthesized and were used as starting materials for the synthesis of an enzyme model 3-complex 2-Zn 2 that lack the dimethylamino groups. A catalysis mechanism is proposed where the Zn II centers of 3-Zn 2 that has two Zn II centers and two dimethylamino groups. Under neutral conditions, this dinuclear metallo-enzyme Zn 2 cooperate in the activation of the phosphoryl group while one of the dimethylamino groups acts as a general base in model is catalytically active in the cleavage of the phosphate diester bond of the RNA model substrate 2-hydroxypropyl-the deprotonation of the hydroxyl group of HPNP.

enes functionalized at two upper rim positions have been