Geometry-dependent phosphodiester hydrolysis catalyzed by binuclear copper complexes

Two isomeric binuclear ligands PBTPA and MBTPA and their copper(II) complexes were prepared and examined for hydrolysis of a model phosphodiester substrate: bis(p-nitrophenyl)phosphate. A bell-shaped pH vs rate profile, which is in agreement with one mechanism proposed for bimetallonucleases/phosphatases, was observed for the binuclear complex of copper(II) and PBTPA. At pH 8.4, a maximum rate of 1.14 x 10(-6) s(-1)--more than 10(4)-fold over uncatalyzed reactions--was achieved. However, the analogous complex of MBTPA did not show significant rate enhancement. The binuclear complex of copper(II) and PBTPA also showed 10-fold acceleration over mononuclear complex of copper(II) and tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (TPA) catalyzed reaction. A phage phiX174 DNA assay showed that the complex of copper(II) and PBTPA promoted supercoiled phage phiX174 DNA relaxation under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions, in contrast to the hydrolytic inactivity of the mononuclear complex of copper(II) and TPA.     

Computational study of alkynes insertion into metal-hydride bonds catalyzed by bimetallic complexes

Density Functional Theory investigations on the insertion mechanism of phenylacetylene into metal-hydride bonds in bimetallic (Pt,Os) catalysts have been carried out. The results obtained have been also compared with the non-reactive monometallic (Os-based) system, to elucidate the cooperative effects and to explain the observed absence of reactivity. The identified reaction path involves phenylacetylene coordination followed by the insertion into the metal-hydride bond, leading to the formation of the experimentally observed products. Both steps do not require large energies compatible with the experimental conditions. The comparison with the reaction path for the monometallic species gives some hints on the cooperative effects due to the presence of the second metal which is related to its role in the CO release for creating a coordination site for phenylacetylene and not in the insertion energetics. The calculations provide a detailed analysis of the reaction complexity and provide a rationale for the efficiency of the process.     

两种双核配合物催化PNPP水解反应的机理研究

Cu-Cu(Ⅱ)和Cu-Zn(Ⅱ)草酰胺桥联双核配合物被合成和表征．研究了该同核和异核配合物催化PNPP水解的动力学和机理,建立了一种双核配合物催化PNPP水解的动力学数学模型．结果表明：在缓冲溶液中随着溶液pH的增大,草酰胺桥联双核配合物催化PNPP水解速率提高;配合物中的两个金属离子在催化PNPP水解过程中具有协同效应;这两种草酰胺桥联双核配合物在催化PNPP水解中表现出较好的催化活性．     

聚醚桥连二异羟肟酸配合物催化羧酸酯水解的动力学研究

研究羧酸酯和磷酸酯的水解在环境和生物应用等方面具有越来越重要的意义。为实现对环境友好、高经济效益的生产过程,许多研究者致力于研发反应条件温和、催化效率高和高度专一性的催化剂。因而,仿酶研究倍受人们的关注,其中,水解金属酶是被研究得较为广泛的一类。我们曾报道过异羟肟酸过渡金属配合物仿生催化氧化性能和二氧亲合性能。本文我们将4种聚醚桥连二异羟肟酸过渡金属铜（Ⅱ）、锌（Ⅱ）、钴（Ⅱ）和锰（Ⅱ）配合物（见图1）作为仿水解酶模型,在底物浓度高于催化剂浓度10倍以上的条件下,研究了配合物在缓冲溶液中催化α-吡啶甲酸对硝基苯酯（PNPP）的水解反应的机理,并建立了相应的动力学数学模型;考查了配合物中心金属离子、溶液酸度和反应温度等对催化PNPP水解反应性能的影响。     

双金属纳米材料催化的有机反应进展

纳米催化介于均相催化与多相催化之间, 也称为”半多相催化”, 目前正受到人们越来越多的关注. 最近几年, 应用双金属纳米材料进行催化研究取得了很大进展, 使用这些催化材料可以增加反应活性和选择性, 而且能很好地得以回收. 本文综述了双金属纳米材料催化的各种有机反应, 如选择性氧化/氢化、偶联和其它反应(脱卤、酰胺化、还原氨化、芳基硼酸与烯酮的1,4-不对称加成和氢解). 将双金属纳米材料用于催化合成更加复杂的有机分子值得期待. 在双金属纳米有机催化领域, 基础理论和实际应用尚有较大的发展空间. 未来该领域的发展需要开展多学科的合作, 包括合理设计和可控制备相关的双金属纳米材料、深入理解催化机理及发展计算催化.     

Enhanced catalytic decomposition of a phosphate triester by modularly accessible bimetallic porphyrin dyads and dimers

A series of metalloporphyrin dimers were modularly prepared and shown to catalyze the methanolysis of a phosphate triester, yielding rates that are large compared to the rate of the uncatalyzed reaction. Up to 1300-fold rate acceleration can be achieved via a combination of cavity-localized Lewis-acid activation and methoxide-induced methanolysis.     

双Schiff碱过渡金属配合物在胶束溶液中催化BNPP水解的研究

双Schiff碱过渡金属配合物和胶束形成的金属胶束作为模拟磷酸二酯水解酶用于催化BNPP水解，探讨了催化作用机理；提出了一种金属胶束催化BNPP水解的动力学数学模型。研究表明，本文所用的金属胶束在适当酸度、温度、介质的条件下对催化BNPP水解具有较高的活性。     

Enantioselective ester hydrolysis catalyzed by imprinted polymers

Highly cross-linked network polymers prepared by molecular imprinting catalyzed enantioselectively the hydrolysis of N-tert-butoxycarbonyl phenylalanine-p-nitrophenyl ester (BOCPheONP). The templates were designed to allow incorporation of the key catalytic elements, found in the proteolytic enzyme chymotrypsin, into the polymer active sites. Three model systems were evaluated. These were constructed from a chiral phosphonate analogue of phenylalanine (series A, C) or L-phenylalanine (series B) attached by a labile ester linkage to an imidazole-containing vinyl monomer. Free radical copolymerization of the template with methacrylic acid (MAA) and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EDMA) gave a highly cross-linked network polymer. The templates could be liberated from the polymers by hydrolysis, giving catalytically active sites envisaged to contain an enantioselective binding site, a site complementary to a transition state like structure (series A, C), and a hydroxyl, imidazole, and carboxylic acid group at hydrogen bond distance. As predicted, the enantiomer of BOCPheONP complementary to the configuration of the template was preferentially hydrolyzed with D-selectivity for the series A polymers (kD/kL = 1.9) and L-selectivity for the series B polymers (kL/kD = 1.2). The maximum rate enhancement, when compared with a control polymer, prepared using a benzoyl-substituted imidazole monomer as template, was 2.5, and comparing with the imidazole monomer in solution, a maximum rate enhancement of 10 was observed. The catalytic activity was higher for polymers subjected to the nucleophilic treatment. This was explained by a higher site density and flexibility of the polymer matrix caused by this treatment. In a comparison of template rebinding to polymers imprinted with a template containing either a carboxylate (planar ground state structure) or a phosphonate (tetrahedral transition state like structure) functionality, it was observed that imprinted polymers are able to discriminate between a transition state like and a ground state structure for transesterification. However the influence of transition state stabilization on the observed rate enhancements remains obscure. Only at acidic pH's was catalysis observed, whereas at basic pH's the polymers inhibit the reaction. At a later stage, the catalytic activity of the polymers for nonactivated D- and L-phenylalanine ethyl esters was investigated. A rate enhancement of up to 3 was observed when compared to the blank. Most important, however, the polymers imprinted with a D template preferentially hydrolyzed the D-ethyl ester and exhibited saturation kinetics.     

Single-site catalysis by bimetallic zinc calixarene inclusion complexes

[reaction: see text] Bimetallic alkylzinc calixarene inclusion complexes were prepared and used in the ring-opening polymerization of L-lactide. Polymers with high molecular weight and a low degree of polydispersity were obtained. 1H NMR and diffusion NMR experiments suggest that a single-site mechanism is operative.     

Highly enantioselective oxidative couplings of 2-naphthols catalyzed by chiral bimetallic oxovanadium complexes with either oxygen or air as oxidant

The chiral bimetallic oxovanadium complexes have been designed for the enantioselective oxidative coupling of 2-naphthols bearing various substituents at C6 and/or C7. The chirality transferring from the amino acid to the axis of the biphenyl in oxovanadium complexes 2 was found to occur with the use of UV and CD spectra and DFT calculation. The homo-coupling reaction with oxygen as the oxidant was promoted by 5 mol % of an oxovanadium complex derived from L-isoleucine and achiral biphenol to afford binaphthols in nearly quantitative yields with high enantioselectivities of up to 98% ee. An oxovanadium complex derived from L-isoleucine and H8-binaphthol is highly efficient at catalyzing the air-oxidized coupling of 2-naphthols with excellent enantioselectivities of up to 97% ee. 51V NMR study shows that the oxovanadium complexes have two vanadium(V) species. Kinetic studies, the cross-coupling reaction, and HRMS spectral studies on the reaction have been carried out and illustrate that two vanadium(V) species are both involved in catalysis and that the coupling reaction undergoes a radical-radical mechanism in an intramolecular manner. Quantum mechanical calculations rationalize the importance of the cooperative effects of the axial chirality matching S-amino acids on the stereocontrol of the oxidative coupling reaction. The application of the transformation in the preparation of chiral ligands and conjugated polymers confirms the importance of the current process in organic synthesis.     

Nitrene transfer reactions catalyzed by gold complexes

We report here the first gold-catalyzed nitrene transfer reaction. A gold(I) compound, supported by 4,4',4' '-tri-tert-butyl-2,2':6',2' '-terpyridine (tBu3tpy) as the ligand, efficiently catalyzes olefin aziridination with the use of the commercially available oxidant PhI(OAc)2 and sulfonamides. This system also mediates carbene insertion into benzene.     

Rapid preparation of hexanucleotide triester blocks fior use in polydeoxyribonucleotide synthesis

Hexanucleotide phosphotriester blocks suitable for use in the construction of polydeoxyribonucleotides can be synthesized in high yield by a rapid procedure involving simple extractive purification of intermediates.     

Norbornene hydroarylation catalyzed by ferrocene palladacycle complexes

Two ferrocene derivatives containing palladacycles with bidentate (C,N) and tridentate (C,N,N) ligands were successfully used as catalysts for the hydroarylation of norbornene.     

Base-free Mizoroki-Heck reaction catalyzed by rhodium complexes

A base-free rhodium-catalyzed Mizoroki-Heck (M-H) reaction using potassium aryltrifluoroborates as the arylating agent of alkenes and acetone as a green "oxidant" is described. Thanks to the ready availability of organoboranes, this reaction should constitute an interesting alternative to conventional M-H reactions using aryl halides.     

Ester hydrogenation catalyzed by Ru-CNN pincer complexes

We report new Ru-CNN pincer catalysts for ester hydrogenation under mild conditions.     

Pauson-Khand reactions catalyzed by entrapped rhodium complexes

An entrapped Rh complex prepared by a sol-gel process has been used as a catalyst in the Pauson-Khand reaction under mild reaction conditions; the catalyst is easily recovered and reused at least 10 times without losing catalyst activity.     

手性钛配合物催化不对称反应研究

手性钛配合物是一类很有用的手性催化剂,在许多反应中显示出了良好的催化活性和高的对映选择性。在我们研究的系列反应中,发现手性钛配合物是一类优良的手性催化剂,其中不对称催化杂Diels-Alder反应制备二氢吡喃酮(99%ee),不对称催化硫醚氧化成亚砜反应(96%ee)和不对称催化硅腈化反应(87%ee),都获得了好的催化活性和高的对映选择性。我们对以上反应中其催化剂的用量、溶剂、催化剂浓度和抗衡离子的Lewis酸碱性、底物的结构与对映选择性的关系、催化循环机理等进行了较系统、深入的研究,发现非共价相互作用和分子识别现象在不对称催化反应中显示出重要的作用,为进一步设计新的手性催化剂,发展不对称催化反应提供了基础数据。     

以N-杂环卡宾为配体的金属络合物催化有机合成的反应

综述了近几年来以N-杂环卡宾为配体的金属络合物催化有机合成的反应。