Formation and fate of benzimidazole-based quinone methides. Influence of pH on quinone methide fate
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The influence of pH on quinone methide fate was assessed from a comparative hydrolytic study of benzimidazole hydroquinones and their O-methylated analogues. Elimination of a leaving group from the hydroquinones affords the carbocation or the quinone methide depending on the pH. The O-methylated analogues, on the other hand, can only afford the carbocation species. Evidence is presented herein that the quinone methide species is reversibly protonated to afford the carbocation species. The acid dissociation constant for this equilibrium is pK(a) 5.5. Above pH 5.5, the quinone methide species traps both nucleophiles and the proton. Below pH 5.5, the quinone methide species is protonated to afford the carbocation species, which exclusively traps nucleophiles. Therefore, the carbocation acid dissociation constant can be used to predict quinone methide fate as a function of pH.
Visible-light unmasking of heterocyclic quinone methide radicals from alkoxyamines
作者:Patrick Kielty、Pau Farràs、Patrick McArdle、Dennis A. Smith、Fawaz Aldabbagh
DOI:10.1039/c9cc08261a
日期:——
In nature, the unmasking of heterocyclic quinones to form stabilized quinonemethide radicals is achieved using reductases (bioreduction). Herein, an alternative controllable room-temperature, visible-light activated protocol using alkoxyamines and bis-alkoxyamines is provided. Selective synthetic modification of the bis-alkoxyamine, allowed chromophore deactivation to give one labile alkoxyamine moiety
Visible Light Activated Benzimidazolequinone Alkoxyamines of 1,1,3,3‐Tetramethylisoindolin‐2‐yloxyl (TMIO)
作者:Patrick Kielty、Benjamin A. Chalmers、Pau Farràs、Dennis A. Smith、Fawaz Aldabbagh
DOI:10.1002/ejoc.202101183
日期:2021.12.28
The first room-temperature dissociation of alkoxyamines of TMIO is rationalized by using kinetics experiments, UV-Vis spectra and DFT-derived parameters. The visiblelightactivation provides a benign alternative to Nature's bioreductive activation for the generation of potentially chemotherapeutic quinone methides.
Ring-fused dimethoxybenzimidazole-benzimidazolequinone (DMBBQ): tunable halogenation and quinone formation using NaX/Oxone
作者:Darren Conboy、Patrick Kielty、Joseph C. Bear、Jeremy K. Cockcroft、Pau Farràs、Patrick McArdle、Richard J. Singer、Dennis A. Smith、Fawaz Aldabbagh
DOI:10.1039/d1ob00032b
日期:——
A new one-pot electrophilic chlorination and bromination with oxidative demethylation uses harmless and inexpensive sodium chloride and sodium bromide with Oxone to yield alicyclic ring-fused bis-benzimidazolequinones.
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Studies of extended quinone methides. The hydrolysis mechanism of 1-methyl-2-(bromomethyl)-4,7-dihydroxybenzimidazole