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Esteve F, Altava B, Luis SV, García-Verdugo E. Basically, nucleophilicity matters little: towards unravelling the supramolecular driving forces in enzyme-like CO 2 conversion. Org Biomol Chem 2022; 20:6637-6645. [PMID: 35929502 DOI: 10.1039/d2ob00948j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The reaction mechanism for the cycloaddition of CO2 to styrene oxide in the presence of macrocyclic pseudopeptides has been studied using DFT methods. Computational calculations indicate that the unprecedented catalytic behaviour previously observed experimentally, in which the most reactive species was not the most nucleophilic but the most basic one, can be associated to the tight cooperativity between several supramolecular interactions promoted by simple peptidomimetics able to display a synzymatic behaviour. This bizarre catalytic performance afforded remarkable conversions of a sluggish substrate like styrene oxide into the desired cyclic carbonate, even under relatively mild reaction conditions, opening the way for the practical use of CO2 as a raw material in the preparation of valuable chemicals. Furthermore, the remote modification of essential structural features of the macrocycle (synzyme engineering) permitted the driving forces of the synzymatic system to be analyzed, stressing the crucial synergic effect between an elegantly preorganized oxyanion hole and additional aromatic interactions.
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- Ferran Esteve
- Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat s/n, Castellón, 12071, Spain.
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat s/n, Castellón, 12071, Spain.
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat s/n, Castellón, 12071, Spain.
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat s/n, Castellón, 12071, Spain.
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Sors-Vendrell A, Ortiz A, Meneses D, Alfonso I, Solà J, Jimeno C. A Degenerate Metal-Templated Catalytic System with Redundant Functional Groups for the Asymmetric Aldol Reaction. J Org Chem 2022; 87:7509-7513. [PMID: 35583468 PMCID: PMC9171831 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c00414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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A degenerate zinc-templated
catalytic system containing two bipyridine
ligands with redundant functional groups for either enamine or hydrogen
bond formation was applied to the asymmetric aldol reaction. This
concept led to both a higher probability of reaction and rate acceleration.
Thus, the catalyst loading could be decreased to a remarkable 2 mol
% in what we think is a general approach.
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- Alba Sors-Vendrell
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona, Barcelona E08034, Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona, Barcelona E08034, Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona, Barcelona E08034, Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona, Barcelona E08034, Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona, Barcelona E08034, Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona, Barcelona E08034, Spain
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Guzmán Ríos D, Romero MA, González-Delgado JA, Arteaga JF, Pischel U. Metal-Mediated Organocatalysis in Water: Serendipitous Discovery of Aldol Reaction Catalyzed by the [Ru(bpy) 2(nornicotine) 2] 2+ Complex. J Org Chem 2022; 87:5412-5418. [PMID: 35337184 PMCID: PMC10550203 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c00472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The [Ru(bpy)2(Nor)2]2+ complex (Nor = nornicotine) is an efficient catalyst for the aldol reaction of acetone with activated benzaldehydes in a buffered aqueous solution. The metal plays the role of an activator for the nornicotine organocatalyst ligands. The resulting catalytic activity is potentiated by a factor of about 4.5 as compared to free nornicotine. Similar rate enhancements can be achieved by using Zn(II) cations as the activator. The observations are rationalized with the reduced basicity of the pyrrolidine N in nornicotine due to the enhanced electron withdrawal of the metal-complexed pyridyl moiety.
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- David Guzmán Ríos
- CIQSO—Center for Research in
Sustainable Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Huelva, Campus de El Carmen s/n, Huelva E-21071, Spain
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- CIQSO—Center for Research in
Sustainable Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Huelva, Campus de El Carmen s/n, Huelva E-21071, Spain
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- CIQSO—Center for Research in
Sustainable Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Huelva, Campus de El Carmen s/n, Huelva E-21071, Spain
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- CIQSO—Center for Research in
Sustainable Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Huelva, Campus de El Carmen s/n, Huelva E-21071, Spain
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- CIQSO—Center for Research in
Sustainable Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Huelva, Campus de El Carmen s/n, Huelva E-21071, Spain
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Zhang B, Ma X, Yan B, Ni C, Yu H, Yang Z, Roesky HW. An efficient catalytic method for hydrophosphination of heterocumulenes with diethylzinc as precatalyst without a solvent. Dalton Trans 2021; 50:15488-15492. [PMID: 34723295 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt02706a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Commercially available compound ZnEt2 acts as an efficient precatalyst for the solvent-free hydrophosphinations of heterocumulenes using Ph2PH as reagent. As far as we knew, this has been not reported in group 12 metal catalyzing reactions. A suggested mechanism of this reaction is explored, and the intermediate [{Ph2PC(NiPr)2}ZnEt]2 is obtained and characterized by a single-crystal X-ray structural analysis.
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- Bingyi Zhang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen Tammannstrasse 4, D-37077, Germany.
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Schaufelberger F, Ramström O. Activated Self-Resolution and Error-Correction in Catalytic Reaction Networks*. Chemistry 2021; 27:10335-10340. [PMID: 33780566 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202100208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Understanding the emergence of function in complex reaction networks is a primary goal of systems chemistry and origin-of-life studies. Especially challenging is to create systems that simultaneously exhibit several emergent functions that can be independently tuned. In this work, a multifunctional complex reaction network of nucleophilic small molecule catalysts for the Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) reaction is demonstrated. The dynamic system exhibited triggered self-resolution, preferentially amplifying a specific catalyst/product set out of a many potential alternatives. By utilizing selective reversibility of the products of the reaction set, systemic thermodynamically driven error-correction could also be introduced. To achieve this, a dynamic covalent MBH reaction based on adducts with internal H-transfer capabilities was developed. By careful tuning of the substituents, rate accelerations of retro-MBH reactions of up to four orders of magnitude could be obtained. This study thus demonstrates how efficient self-sorting of catalytic systems can be achieved through an interplay of several complex emergent functionalities.
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- Fredrik Schaufelberger
- Department of Chemistry, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology Teknikringen 36, 10044 Stockholm (Sweden)
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- Department of Chemistry, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology Teknikringen 36, 10044 Stockholm (Sweden).,Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Ave., Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.,Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, 39182, Kalmar, Sweden
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Jimeno C. Amino Acylguanidines as Bioinspired Catalysts for the Asymmetric Aldol Reaction. Molecules 2021; 26:826. [PMID: 33562560 PMCID: PMC7915246 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26040826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The binding and stabilizing effect of arginine residues in certain aldolases served as inspiring source for the development of a family of amino acylguanidine organocatalysts. Screening and optimization led to identify the threonine derivative as the most suitable catalyst for the asymmetric aldol addition of hydroxyacetone, affording the syn diastereomer in high ee. In contrast, the proline derivative yielded the anti diasteromer. MMFF models suggest the presence of an extensive hydrogen bonding network between the acylguanidinium group and the reaction intermediates.
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- Ciril Jimeno
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Jordi Girona 18-26, E08034 Barcelona, Spain
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Solà J, Jimeno C, Alfonso I. Exploiting complexity to implement function in chemical systems. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:13273-13286. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cc04170j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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This feature article reflects a personal overview of the importance of complexity as an additional parameter to be considered in chemical research, being illustrated with selected examples in molecular recognition and catalysis.
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- Jordi Solà
- Department of Biological Chemistry
- Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
- IQAC-CSIC
- 08034 Barcelona
- Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry
- Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
- IQAC-CSIC
- 08034 Barcelona
- Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry
- Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
- IQAC-CSIC
- 08034 Barcelona
- Spain
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Gimeno MC, Herrera RP. Hydrogen Bonding and Internal or External Lewis or Brønsted Acid Assisted (Thio)urea Catalysts. European J Org Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201901344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- M. Concepción Gimeno
- Departamento de Química Inorgánica; Instituto de Síntesis Química y Catálisis Homogénea (ISQCH) CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza; C/ Pedro Cerbuna 12 50009 Zaragoza Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica. Laboratorio de Organocatálisis Asimétrica; Instituto de Síntesis Química y Catálisis Homogénea (ISQCH) CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza; C/ Pedro Cerbuna 12 50009 Zaragoza Spain
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