Structural characterization of 1,3-propanedithiols that feature carboxylic acids: Homologues of mercury chelating agents
作者:Wesley Sattler、Joshua H. Palmer、Christy C. Bridges、Lucy Joshee、Rudolfs K. Zalups、Gerard Parkin
DOI:10.1016/j.poly.2013.05.012
日期:2013.11
The molecular structures of a series of 1,3-propanedithiols that contain carboxylic acid groups, namely rac- and meso-2,4-dimercaptoglutaric acid (H(4)DMGA) and 2-carboxy-1,3-propanedithiol (H3DMCP), have been determined by X-ray diffraction. Each compound exhibits two centrosymmetric intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions between pairs of carboxylic acid groups, which result in a dimeric structure for H3DMCP and a polymeric tape-like structure for rac- and meso-H(4)DMGA. Significantly, the hydrogen bonding motifs observed for rac- and meso-H(4)DMGA are very different to those observed for the 1,2-dithiol, rac-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (rac-H(4)DMSA), in which the two oxygen atoms of each carboxylic acid group hydrogen bond to two different carboxylic acid groups, thereby resulting in a hydrogen bonded sheet-like structure rather than a tape. Density functional theory calculations indicate that 1,3-dithiolate coordination to mercury results in larger S-Hg-S bond angles than does 1,2-dithiolate coordination, but these angles are far from linear. As such, kappa(2)-S-2 coordination of these dithiolate ligands is expected to be associated with mercury coordination numbers of greater than two. In vivo studies demonstrate that both rac-H(4)DMGA and H3DMCP reduce the renal burden of mercury in rats, although the compounds are not as effective as either 2,3-dimercaptopropane-1-sulfonic acid (H3DMPS) or meso-H(4)DMSA. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.