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Jiang YY, Li Y, Chen C, Xin YX. Computational Study on Flavin-Catalyzed Aerobic Dioxygenation of Alkenyl Thioesters: Decomposition of Anionic Peroxides. J Org Chem 2024; 89:13993-14005. [PMID: 39276183 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.4c01346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/16/2024]
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Flavin-dependent catalysts are widely applied to aerobic monooxygenation/oxidation reactions. In contrast, flavin-catalyzed aerobic dioxygenation reactions exhibit higher atomic economy but are less reported, not to mention the relevant mechanistic studies. Herein, a density functional theory study on flavin-catalyzed aerobic epoxidation-oxygenolysis of alkenyl thioesters was performed for the first time. Different from the previous mechanistic proposal, a pathway featuring two catalytic stages, monoanionic flavin-C(4a)-peroxide/oxide intermediates, and a reverse reaction sequence (epoxidation goes prior to oxygenolysis) was revealed. In comparison, the pathways involving dianionic flavin catalysts, monoanionic flavin-N(5)-(hydro)peroxide/C(10a)-peroxide, or neutral flavin-C(4a)-hydroperoxide/hydroxide/N(5)-oxide, and the pathways where oxygenolysis goes prior to epoxidation are less favored. Epoxidation goes through intramolecular substitution of the O-O bond of anionic flavin-C(4a)-peroxide by β-carbon, while the resulting flavin-C(4a)-oxide accomplishes the oxygenolysis. Furthermore, two other reaction modes, i.e., concerted O-O cleavage/1,2-shift of α-substituents and dyotropic rearrangement were discovered for the decomposition of other anionic peroxides, and preliminary rules were summarized for understanding the chemoselectivity for this process. This study sheds light on the different reaction features of numerous flavin-dioxygen derivatives, providing deeper insights into flavin-catalyzed dioxygenation reactions, and is expected to inspire experimental design based on unconventional anionic peroxides.
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- Yuan-Ye Jiang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China
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Zubova E, Pokluda A, Dvořáková H, Krupička M, Cibulka R. Exploring the Reactivity of Flavins with Nucleophiles Using a Theoretical and Experimental Approach. Chempluschem 2024; 89:e202300547. [PMID: 38064649 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202300547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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Covalent adducts of flavin cofactors with nucleophiles play an important role in non-canonical function of flavoenzymes as well as in flavin-based catalysis. Herein, the interaction of flavin derivatives including substituted flavins (isoalloxazines), 1,10-ethylene-bridged flavinium salts, and non-substituted alloxazine and deazaflavin with selected nucleophiles was investigated using an experimental and computational approach. Triphenylphosphine or trimethylphosphine, 1-nitroethan-1-ide, and methoxide were selected as representatives of neutral soft, anionic soft, and hard nucleophiles, respectively. The interactions were investigated using UV/Vis and 1H NMR spectroscopy as well as by DFT calculations. The position of nucleophilic attack estimated using the calculated Gibbs free energy values was found to correspond with the experimental data, favouring the addition of phosphine and 1-nitroethan-1-ide into position N(5) and methoxide into position C(10a) of 1,10-ethylene-bridged flavinium salts. The calculated Gibbs free energy values were found to correlate with the experimental redox potentials of the flavin derivatives tested. These findings can be utilized as valuable tools for the design of artificial flavin-based catalytic systems or investigating the mechanism of flavoenzymes.
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- Ekaterina Zubova
- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Central Laboratories, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic
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Pokluda A, Zubova E, Chudoba J, Krupička M, Cibulka R. Catalytic artificial nitroalkane oxidases - a way towards organocatalytic umpolung. Org Biomol Chem 2023; 21:2768-2774. [PMID: 36919409 DOI: 10.1039/d3ob00101f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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Nitroalkane oxidases (NAOs) are flavoenzymes that catalyse the oxidation of nitroalkanes to their corresponding carbonyl compounds while producing nitrite anions. Herein, we present an artificial catalytic system using flavins or ethylene-bridged flavinium salts that works via an NAO-like process. Under conditions optimised in terms of solvent, base, temperature and oxygen pressure, primary nitroalkanes were transformed to aldehydes. In our system, aldehydes immediately reacted with other nitroalkane molecules to form β-nitroalcohols. The reduced flavin catalyst was re-oxidised by oxygen. An alternative mechanism towards β-nitroalcohols via 5-(2-nitrobutyl)-1,5-dihydroflavin was suggested through quantum chemical calculations and by trapping and characterising this dihydroflavin intermediate. Interestingly, 5-(2-nitrobutyl)-1,5-dihydroflavin is an analogue of the flavin adenine dinucleotide adduct previously observed in an NAO X-ray structure. In both mechanistic pathways, flavin-5-iminium species is formed by nitroalkanide addition to flavin. This process represents flavin-based umpolung of an original donor to an acceptor.
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- Adam Pokluda
- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Central Laboratories, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic.
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Pokluda A, Anwar Z, Boguschová V, Anusiewicz I, Skurski P, Sikorski M, Cibulka R. Robust Photocatalytic Method Using Ethylene‐Bridged Flavinium Salts for the Aerobic Oxidation of Unactivated Benzylic Substrates. Adv Synth Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.202100024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Adam Pokluda
- Department of Organic Chemistry University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague Technická 5 166 28 Prague 6 Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Chemistry Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8 61–614 Poznań Poland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague Technická 5 166 28 Prague 6 Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Chemistry University of Gdańsk Wita Stwosza 63 80–308 Gdańsk Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry University of Gdańsk Wita Stwosza 63 80–308 Gdańsk Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8 61–614 Poznań Poland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague Technická 5 166 28 Prague 6 Czech Republic
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Răsădean DM, Machida T, Sada K, Pudney CR, Pantoș GD. Flavin mimetics: Synthesis and photophysical properties. Tetrahedron 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2021.131925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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März M, Babor M, Cibulka R. Flavin Catalysis Employing an N(5)-Adduct: an Application in the Aerobic Organocatalytic Mitsunobu Reaction. European J Org Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201900397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Michal März
- Department of Organic Chemistry; University of Chemistry and Technology; 166 28 Prague 6 Prague, Technická 5 Czech Republic
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- Department of Solid State Chemistry; University of Chemistry and Technology; Technická 5 166 28 Prague 6 Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic Chemistry; University of Chemistry and Technology; 166 28 Prague 6 Prague, Technická 5 Czech Republic
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Lee J, Müller F, Visser AJWG. The Sensitized Bioluminescence Mechanism of Bacterial Luciferase. Photochem Photobiol 2018; 95:679-704. [PMID: 30485901 DOI: 10.1111/php.13063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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After more than one-half century of investigations, the mechanism of bioluminescence from the FMNH2 assisted oxygen oxidation of an aliphatic aldehyde on bacterial luciferase continues to resist elucidation. There are many types of luciferase from species of bioluminescent bacteria originating from both marine and terrestrial habitats. The luciferases all have close sequence homology, and in vitro, a highly efficient light generation is obtained from these natural metabolites as substrates. Sufficient exothermicity equivalent to the energy of a blue photon is available in the chemical oxidation of the aldehyde to the corresponding carboxylic acid, and a luciferase-bound FMNH-OOH is a key player. A high energy species, the source of the exothermicity, is unknown except that it is not a luciferin cyclic peroxide, a dioxetanone, as identified in the pathway of the firefly and the marine bioluminescence systems. Besides these natural substrates, variable bioluminescence properties are found using other reactants such as flavin analogs or aldehydes, but results also depend on the luciferase type. Some rationalization of the mechanism has resulted from spatial structure determination, NMR of intermediates and dynamic optical spectroscopy. The overall light path appears to fall into the sensitized class of chemiluminescence mechanism, distinct from the dioxetanone types.
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- John Lee
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry Microspectroscopy Centre, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Zelenka J, Svobodová E, Tarábek J, Hoskovcová I, Boguschová V, Bailly S, Sikorski M, Roithová J, Cibulka R. Combining Flavin Photocatalysis and Organocatalysis: Metal-Free Aerobic Oxidation of Unactivated Benzylic Substrates. Org Lett 2018; 21:114-119. [PMID: 30582822 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b03547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We report a system with ethylene-bridged flavinium salt 2b which catalyzes the aerobic oxidation of toluenes and benzyl alcohols with high oxidation potential ( Eox > +2.5 V vs SCE) to give the corresponding benzoic acids under visible light irradiation. This is caused by the high oxidizing power of excited 2b ( E(2b*) = +2.67 V vs SCE) involved in photooxidation and by the accompanying dark organocatalytic oxygenation provided by the in situ formed flavin hydroperoxide 2b-OOH.
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- Jan Zelenka
- Institute for Molecules and Materials , Radboud University , Heyendaalseweg 135 , 6525 AJ Nijmegen , The Netherlands
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry , Academy of Science of the Czech Republic , Flemingovo náměstí 542/2 , 16610 Prague , Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Chemistry ; Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan , Umultowska 89b , 61614 Poznan , Poland
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials , Radboud University , Heyendaalseweg 135 , 6525 AJ Nijmegen , The Netherlands
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Sakai T, Kumoi T, Ishikawa T, Nitta T, Iida H. Comparison of riboflavin-derived flavinium salts applied to catalytic H 2O 2 oxidations. Org Biomol Chem 2018; 16:3999-4007. [PMID: 29766194 DOI: 10.1039/c8ob00856f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A series of flavinium salts, 5-ethylisoalloxazinium, 5-ethylalloxazinium, and 1,10-ethylene-bridged alloxazinium triflates, were prepared from commercially available riboflavin. This study presents a comparison between their optical and redox properties, and their catalytic activity in H2O2 oxidations of sulfide, tertiary amine, and cyclobutanone. Reflecting the difference between the π-conjugated ring structures, the flavinium salts displayed very different redox properties, with reduction potentials in the order of: 5-ethylisoalloxazinium > 5-ethylalloxazinium > 1,10-ethylene-bridged alloxazinium. A comparison of their catalytic activity revealed that 5-ethylisoalloxazinium triflate specifically oxidises sulfide and cyclobutanone, and 5-ethylalloxazinium triflate smoothly oxidises tertiary amine. 1,10-Bridged alloxazinium triflate, which can be readily obtained from riboflavin in large quantities, showed moderate catalytic activity for the H2O2 oxidation of sulfide and cyclobutanone.
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- Takuya Sakai
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu, Matsue 690-8504, Japan.
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