Foldamers as Reactive Sieves: Reactivity as a Probe of Conformational Flexibility
摘要:
A series of m-phenyleneethynylene (mPE) oligomers modified with a dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) unit were treated with methyl sulfonates of varying sizes and shapes, and the relative reactivities were measured by UV spectrophotometry. Using a small-molecule DMAP analogue as a reference, each of the methyl sulfonates was shown to react at nearly identical rate. In great contrast, oligomers that are long enough to fold, and hence capable of binding the methyl sulfonate, experience rate enhancements of 18-1600-fold relative to that of the small-molecule analogue, depending on the type of alkyl chain attached to the guest. Three different oligomer lengths were studied, with the longest oligomers exhibiting the fastest rate and greatest substrate specificity. Even large, bulky guests show slightly enhanced methylation rates compared to that with the reference DMAP, which suggests a dynamic nature to the oligomer's binding cavity. Several mechanistic models to describe this behavior are discussed.
Foldamers as Reactive Sieves: Reactivity as a Probe of Conformational Flexibility
摘要:
A series of m-phenyleneethynylene (mPE) oligomers modified with a dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) unit were treated with methyl sulfonates of varying sizes and shapes, and the relative reactivities were measured by UV spectrophotometry. Using a small-molecule DMAP analogue as a reference, each of the methyl sulfonates was shown to react at nearly identical rate. In great contrast, oligomers that are long enough to fold, and hence capable of binding the methyl sulfonate, experience rate enhancements of 18-1600-fold relative to that of the small-molecule analogue, depending on the type of alkyl chain attached to the guest. Three different oligomer lengths were studied, with the longest oligomers exhibiting the fastest rate and greatest substrate specificity. Even large, bulky guests show slightly enhanced methylation rates compared to that with the reference DMAP, which suggests a dynamic nature to the oligomer's binding cavity. Several mechanistic models to describe this behavior are discussed.
申请人:University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
公开号:US20160129436A1
公开(公告)日:2016-05-12
A sulfonated polyethylene is achieved where a polymethylene backbone with substituted methylene units having one or two sulfonic acid groups or salts of the sulfonic acid groups periodically, quasiperiodically, or quasirandomly separated from each other by unsubstituted methylene units along the polymer backbone. The sulfonated polyethylene is prepared by suspending a sulfonated ester polyethylene in a polar aprotic non-solvent, whereupon the addition of a strong base saponifies the esters with the dissolving of the resulting sulfonated polyethylene having salts of sulfonic acid groups.