Chloramines VII: Chlorination of Alanylphenylalanine in Model Solutions and in a Wastewater
摘要:
Products of the 30-min chlorination of the dipeptide alanylphenylalanine were determined at pH 7.0 in model solutions. At Cl-2/peptide mole ratios less than or equal to 1, N-chloroalanylphenylalanine (I) is the only product. I is very stable at 23 degrees C (t(1/2) = 111 +/- 8.8 h). At mole ratios greater than or equal to 2, N,N-dichloroalanylphenylalanine (II) is the only product. II decomposes in model solutions (t(1/2) = 4.1 +/- 0.2 h) at pH 7.0 to form a compound identified as the N-chloroketimine N-[2-(N'-chloroimino)propanoyl]phenylalanine (III). The structure of III was identified by converting it to N-pyruvylphenylalanine tert-butyl ester by reduction, hydrolysis, and esterification and correlating the mass spectrum and GC retention time of this derivative with those of an authentic sample. III is unusually stable and decomposes slowly (t(1/2) = 125 +/- 6.5 h) to phenylalanine. In order to monitor the reactions of the dipeptide at low concentrations in a wastewater, alanyl-p-[H-3]-phenylalanine was synthesized. A primary wastewater (TKN = 19.82 mg/L; [NH3] = 19.79 mg/L) was inoculated with the radiolabeled dipeptide and chlorinated to seven different chlorine concentrations spanning the breakpoint curve of the wastewater. Products identical to those observed in model solutions were formed. The stabilities of the tritiated analogs of II and III in the wastewater were similar to those determined in model solutions. Time studies of the decomposition of N,N-dichloroalanyl-p-[H-3]-phenylalanine revealed the formation of an intermediate (A) not previously recognized. Modeling of the reactions of II suggested that A was a decomposition product of III in the formation of phenylalanine and was probably either an isocyanate or a carbamic acid formed from hydrolysis of an isocyanate intermediate.
for the preparation of seven-membered cyclic α,β-dipeptides is described. Following coupling of N-protected α-amino acids with N-substituted β-aminoacid tert-butyl esters, that affords linear α,β-dipeptides, the protecting groups at the terminal functionalities were removed and the open-chain dipeptides were cyclized with phenylphosphonic dichloride, PhP(O)Cl2, to give the desired cyclic α,β-dipeptides
A general method has been developed for the synthesis of 1,3-disubstituted-imidazo[1,5-a]quinazolin-5-(4H)-ones. This process involves initial microwave-assisted quinazolinone formation between anthranilamide and various Boc- or acylamino acids, followed by intramolecular cyclodehydration under acidic conditions. In the case of 3-monosubstituted-imidazoquinazolinones, the procedure needs the formation
Peptide conformational distributions as studied by electron-transfer kinetics
作者:Mark S. Meier、Marye Anne Fox、John R. Miller
DOI:10.1021/jo00018a034
日期:1991.8
The preparation and electron-transfer (ET) behavior of a homologous series of alanine oligomers bearing naphthoyl groups at the N-termini and biphenylylamide groups at the C-termini is described. Electron pulse radiolysis was used to generate the corresponding radical anions, and the rates of ET were monitored at 700 nm (decay of donor) and at 500 nm (growth of acceptor). Several systems displayed ET decays too fast to measure (k(et) > 10(10)), and in the others multiexponential decay kinetics were observed. The ET decay of dipeptide 3 could be fit to two exponential described by rate constants of 5.2 x 10(8) (22%) and 5.6 x 10(9) s-1 (78%). In the longer peptides, the fit of the rate constants (and their relative contributions to total intensity) becomes less well-defined, suggesting additional conformational diversity.