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PubMed2002

In vitro release of digestive enzymes by FMRF amide related neuropeptides and analogues in the lepidopteran insect Opisina arenosella (Walk.).

The insect neuropeptides FMRF amide, leucomyosupressin (LMS) and neuropeptide analogues leucosulfakinins (FLSK and LSK II Ser (SO(3)H)), perisulfakinin (PSK), proleucosulfakinin (PLSK), 14A[phi1]WP-I, 542phi1, and 378A[5b]WP-I were assayed for their effects on the release of amylase and protease from the midgut tissue of larvae of Opisina arenosella. In the bioassay, empty midgut tubes ligated at both ends using hair were incubated with insect saline containing neuropeptides/analogues in a bioassay apparatus at 37 degrees C for 30 min. After incubation the contents of the midgut preparations were analyzed for amylase and protease activity. In control experiments, the midgut preparations were incubated in insect saline without neuropeptides. The results of the study reveal that for stimulating amylase release from midgut tissue, the peptides require an FXRF amide (X may be methionine or leucine) sequence at the C-terminal. The presence of HMRF amide at C-terminal of peptides may inhibit the release of amylase. Meanwhile, peptides with both FMRF and HMRF amide sequence at the C-terminal are found to be effective in stimulating protease release. The tetrapeptide segment at the C-terminal probably represent the active core of the neuropeptide.

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PubMed1991

N-(phenylacetyl)glycyl-D-aziridine-2-carboxylate, an acyclic amide substrate of beta-lactamases: importance of the shape of the substrate in beta-lactamase evolution.

Certain acyclic depsipeptides, but not peptides, are substrates of typical beta-lactamases [Pratt, R.F., & Govardhan, C.P. (1984) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81, 1302]. This may reflect either the greater chemical reactivity of depsipeptides (and of beta-lactams, the natural substrates) than peptides or the greater ease of distortion of the depsipeptide (ester) than the peptide (amide) group into a penicillin-like conformation. The latter explanation has been shown to be more likely by employment of a novel beta-lactamase substrate. N-(phenylacetyl)glycyl-D-aziridine-2-carboxylate, which combines a high chemical reactivity with a close to tetrahedral amide nitrogen atom. Although this substrate was better (higher kcat/KM) than a comparable depsipeptide for beta-lactamases, it was poorer than the depsipeptide for the Streptomyces R61 D-alanyl-D-alanine peptidase (which catalyzes specific peptide hydrolysis). It therefore seems likely that one vital feature of the putative evolution of a DD-peptidase into a beta-lactamase would have been modification of the active site to, on one hand, accommodate bicyclic beta-lactams and, on the other, exclude productive binding of planar acyclic amides. Certain serine beta-lactamases and the R61 DD-peptidase also catalyze methanolysis and aminolysis by D-phenylalanine of the N-acylaziridine. The latter reaction, the first amide aminolysis shown to be catalyzed by a beta-lactamase, is a very close analogue of the transpeptidase reaction of DD-peptidases. The methanolysis reaction appeared to proceed by way of the same acyl-enzyme intermediate as formed from depsipeptides possessing the same acyl moiety as the aziridine. The kinetics of methanolysis were employed to determine whether acylation or deacylation was rate limiting to the hydrolysis reaction under saturating substrate concentrations. The kinetics of the aminolysis reaction, catalyzed by the Enterobacter cloacae P99 beta-lactamase, showed the characteristics of, and were interpreted in terms of, a sequential mechanism previously deduced for depsipeptides and this enzyme [Pazhanisamy, S., & Pratt, R. F. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 6875-6882]. This mechanism features two separate binding sites, only one of which is productive. Strikingly, the binding of the N-acylaziridine to the nonproductive site was very tight, such that essentially all hydrolysis at substrate concentrations above 0.1Km proceeded via the ternary complex; this could also be true of penicillins.

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PubMed1985

Reactivity of Glu-22(beta) of hemoglobin S for amidation with glucosamine.

X-ray diffraction analysis of deoxyhemoglobin S crystals has implicated that a number of carboxyl groups of the protein are present at or near the intermolecular contact regions. The reactivity of these or other carboxyl groups of hemoglobin S for the amidation with an amino sugar, i.e., glucosamine, and the influence of amidation on the oxygen affinity and polymerization have been investigated. Reaction of oxyhemoglobin S at pH 6.0 and 23 degrees C with 20 mM 1-ethyl-3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide (EDC) and 100 mM [3H]glucosamine for 1 h resulted in an incorporation of nearly two residues of glucosamine per tetramer. The amidation was very specific for the carboxyl groups of globin; the glucosamine was not incorporated into the heme carboxyls. Derivatization of hemoglobin S by glucosamine increased the O2 affinity of the protein but had no influence on either the Hill coefficient or the Bohr effect. Amidation by glucosamine also increased the solubility of deoxyhemoglobin S by about 55%. Tryptic peptide mapping of the modified hemoglobin S indicated that the peptides beta-T3 and beta-T5 contained the glucosamine incorporated into the protein. Sequence analysis of glucosamine-modified beta-T3 and beta-T5 demonstrated that the gamma-carboxyl groups of Glu-22 and Glu-43, respectively, had been derivatized with glucosamine. The residue Glu-43(beta) shows a high selectivity toward glycine ethyl ester also, whereas Glu-22(beta) is not reactive toward this amine.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1990

Novel substrates and inhibitors of peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase.

Peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM, EC 1.14.17.3) catalyzes the formation of alpha-amidated peptides from their glycine-extended precursors, thus playing a key role in the processing of peptide neurohormones. We now report that PAM readily catalyzes three alternate monooxygenase reactions--sulfoxidation, amine N-dealkylation, and O-dealkylation. Thus, (4-nitrobenzyl)thioacetic acid is converted to the analogous sulfoxide, N-(4-nitrobenzyl)glycine is converted to 4-nitrobenzylamine and glyoxylate, and [(4-nitrobenzyl)oxy]acetic acid is converted to 4-nitrobenzyl alcohol and glyoxylate. All these new activities display the characteristics expected for the normal PAM-catalyzed reductive oxygenation pathway and produce an equimolar amount of glyoxylate together with the heteroatom-containing dealkylation products. The ester [(4-methoxybenzoyl)oxy]acetic acid is not a PAM substrate, but is instead a good competitive inhibitor (KI = 0.48 mM). In addition, we report that the olefinic substrate analogues trans-benzoylacrylic acid and 4-phenyl-3-butenoic acid are potent time-dependent inactivators of PAM, with inactivation exhibiting the characteristics expected for mechanism-based inhibition. Monoethyl fumarate is also a time-dependent inactivator of PAM. Finally, we introduce several small non-peptide substrates for PAM by demonstrating that PAM catalyzes the transformation of hippuric acid and several ring-substituted derivatives to the corresponding benzamides and glyoxylic acid, with the most facile substrate of this class being 4-nitrohippuric acid. These compounds are the smallest amide substrates yet reported for PAM, and it is thus apparent that only the minimal structure of an acylglycine is required for PAM-catalyzed oxygenative amidation.

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PubMed1990

Preparation and characterization of [N alpha-(4-azido-2-nitrophenyl)Ala1,Tyr36]-parathyroid hormone related peptide (1-36)amide: a high-affinity, partial agonist having high cross-linking efficiency with its receptor on ROS 17/2.8 cells.

The synthesis, purification, and structural analysis of the major compounds resulting from photoderivatization of [Tyr36]-parathyroid hormone related peptide (1-36)amide [[Tyr36]PTHrP(1-36)amide] are described. The reaction of the synthetic peptide with 4-fluoro-3-nitrophenyl azide under nonaqueous conditions yields three major products (peaks D-1, D-2, and G), which were purified to homogeneity by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Subsequent amino acid analysis showed that the peptides of peaks D-1 and G each lack one lysine residue, while the peptide in peak D-2 lacks one alanine residue, suggesting that these residues are chemically modified by photoderivatization. Sequence analysis of the photoderivatized peptides revealed that compounds D-1 and G were derivatized on Lys13 and Lys11, respectively. Compound D-2 was N-blocked, indicating that this compound is derivatized on the alpha-amino function of Ala1. Both Lys residues of D-2 were quantitatively recovered upon sequencing after digestion with endoproteinase Glu-C. Compounds D-2 and G had apparent KdS of 1 X 10(-9) M and 0.6 X 10(-9) M, respectively, for their receptors on ROS 17/2.8 cells, which are identical with or similar to that of the underivatized [Tyr36]PTHrP(1-36)amide. Compound G had the same adenylate cyclase stimulating potency as the underivatized, synthetic [Tyr36]PTHrP(1-36)amide, whereas compound D-2 was only a partial agonist, having about 25% of the maximal cAMP production. Compound D-1, which is modified on Lys13, retained only 2-4% of its receptor binding affinity and biological activity relative to that of its parent compound.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed2000

Stability of complexes of aromatic amides with bromide anion: quantitative structure--property relationships

Most of the theoretical studies published to-date on the structural and electronic properties of supramolecules have been devoted to the neutral or cationic complexes, while little is known about anionic systems. A detailed theoretical study of the interaction between simple aromatic amides and the bromide anion has recently been published (Cajan, M.; Stibor, I.; Koca, J. J. Phys. Chem. A 1999, 103, 3778). The present work focuses on the structural and physicochemical parameters of simple aromatic amides related to their ability to form the 1:1 complex with a bromide anion. A quantitative structure-property relationships (QSPR) model for the prediction of association constants is proposed. The model based on 22 complexes and nine molecular descriptors explained 96% (84% cross-validated) of the variance in association constants. The descriptors employed in this model included parameters for the characterization of conformational behavior and the 3D structure of amide molecules, distribution of electron density on the amidic functional group, and parameters for substitution on aromatic units. The quantitative structure-property relationship approach predicted the association constants with comparable quality, but significantly lower computational demand, than molecular modeling or standard quantum chemistry calculations.

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PubMed1998

Binuclear Copper(II) Chelates of Amide-Based Cyclophanes.

A chelating cyclophane has been synthesized by cyclocondensation of two ethylenediaminetetraacetic (EDTA) units with two p-phenylenediamine units: the resulting cyclophane is 2,9,18,25-tetraoxo-4,7,20,23-tetrakis(carboxymethyl)-1,4,7,10,17,20,23,26-octaaza[10.10]paracyclophane, abbreviated as (bis-edtapdn)H(4). Cyclocondensation of two EDTA and two 1,5-diaminonaphthalene units has given the naphthalenophane, 2,9,22,29-tetraoxo-4,7,24,27-tetrakis(carboxymethyl)-1,4,7,10,21,24,27,30-octaaza[10.10](1,5)naphthalenophane, (bis-edtanap)H(4). Studies of electronic and EPR spectra have been carried out on the binuclear Cu(2+) complexes of these new ligands and of related chelating cyclophanes, 2,9,25,32-tetraoxo-4,7,27,30-tetrakis(carboxymethyl)-1,4,7,10,24,27,30,33-octaaza[10.1.10.1]paracyclophane, abbreviated as (bis-edtabpm)H(4), and 2,9,25,32-tetraoxo-4,7,27,30-tetrakis(carboxymethyl)-1,4,7,10,24,27,30,33-octaaza-17,40-dioxa[10.1.10.1]paracyclophane, abbreviated as (bis-edtabpe)H(4). Common features of these chelating cyclophanes are as follows: (1) amino, amide, and pendant carboxymethyl donor groups are substituents in the cyclophane ring, and (2) the amide groups are directly bound to the aromatic groups. These ligands formed neutral binuclear Cu(2+) chelates [Cu(2)L](0) that are water-insoluble. In alkaline solutions, these Cu(2+) complexes were converted to anionic chelates [Cu(2)(LH(-)(4))](4)(-) in which deprotonated amide nitrogens coordinated Cu(2+) ions. These anionic metal chelates of (bis-edtapdn)H(4), (bis-edtabpm)H(4), and (bis-edtabpe)H(4) exhibited three pi-pi transition bands in the spectral range 240-340 nm, in contrast to the uncoordinated cyclophanes, which showed a single band in this spectral range. The unusual pi-pi transition spectra of the [Cu(2)(LH(-)(4))](4)(-) complexes originate from the combined effect of metal-ligand charge transfer and proximity of the pi systems. The absorption and emission spectra of (bis-edtanap)H(4) were also influenced by coordination with copper. The EPR spectrum of [Cu(2)(bis-edtanapH(-)(4))](4)(-) in a methanol glass matrix showed a hyperfine structure due to the spin exchange between two Cu(2+) ions. These unusual spectral and magnetic properties arise from the strong coordination between Cu(2+) ions and deprotonated amide nitrogens that are bound to the pi systems.

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PubMed2003

Are the enolates of amides and esters stabilized by electrostatics?

The fact that amides and esters form less stable enolates than ketones might be seen as evidence that electrostatic stabilization is unimportant in these anions. However, ab initio molecular orbital calculations show that electrostatic stabilization does in fact lie beneath the competing resonance effect that causes the decrease in acidity. The electrostatic contribution is revealed by examining torsionally twisted amide and ester structures in which the pi resonance interactions are largely inhibited. These twisted amides and esters have greater enolate acidity than the corresponding ketones. Qualitatively similar behavior is observed with respect to protonation, such that twisted amides and esters are generally less basic than the reference ketones, in striking contrast to their behavior in the normal geometries.

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PubMed1992

Ester and amide derivatives of E64c as inhibitors of platelet calpains.

Ester and amide derivatives of E64c, (+)-(2S,3S)-3-[[(S)-3-methyl-1- [(3-methylbutyl)carbamoyl]butyl]carbamoyl]-2-oxiranecarboxylic acid, an inhibitor of calpains, were synthesized and tested for ability to inhibit calpain in lysed cells, ability to enter intact cells, and ability to inhibit calpain in intact cells. The esters were from halogen-substituted alcohols and alcohols with increasing size. There were no appreciable differences in the inhibitory potency of any of the halogen-substituted esters from ethyl to trifluoroethyl, indicating that ease of hydrolysis of this class of ester is not important for activity. The only ester with impaired activity was the largest, Z-leucyl-norleucyl, which was about 5% as effective as the ethyl ester, E64d. Amides of amino acid esters also had impaired activity. To explore the possibility of targeting E64c derivatives to specific cells, esters and amides of E64c with 5-hydroxytryptamine were tested on the rationale that the active 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake mechanism of platelets might selectively concentrate the drug in platelets. Both the ester and amide inhibited calpain in lysed cells, but only the ester inhibited in intact cells. The 5-hydroxytryptamine ester showed no advantage over the ethyl ester in entering platelets.

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PubMed1982

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors: importance of the amide carbonyl of mercaptoacyl amino acids for hydrogen bonding to the enzyme.

A series of mercaptoacyl amino acids and related compounds was synthesized and evaluated for inhibition of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in order to determine the nature and importance of the putative interaction between ACE and the amide moiety of inhibitors such as captopril (3-mercapto-2-methylpropanoyl-L-proline). It was concluded that the interaction involves a hydrogen bond from a donor site on ACE to the oxygen of the amide carbonyl. Compounds in which the amide moiety is replaced by other groups (ester, ketone, sulfonamide) capable of accepting a hydrogen bond are effective inhibitors, but compounds in which only the geometrical features of the amide are retained are ineffective inhibitors. The presence of an NH group is not necessary for effective inhibition. The activity of a series of mercaptoacyl cycloalkyl carboxylic acids parallels the activity of the isosteric series of mercaptoacyl imino acids.

Amino Acids, Sulfur↗
PubMed1983

Synthesis and biological properties of new hexapeptide substrates for vitamin K dependent carboxylase. Evidence for X-Pro cis/trans amide bond interconversions in prothrombin precursor fragment 18-23.

Three hexapeptide analogues, corresponding to sequence 18-23 of bovine prothrombin precursor [-Cys-Leu-Glu-Glu-Pro-Cys-] have been synthesized and evaluated as substrates for vitamin K dependent carboxylase. These new hexapeptides are moderately good substrates for the carboxylase but do not significantly inhibit carboxylation of Phe-Leu-Glu-Glu-Leu, a good substrate for the enzyme. Based on proton and carbon-13 NMR experiments, it is established that the conformation of sequence 18-23, which contains proline at position 22, has a trans amide bond for the Glu-Pro22 sequence in chloroform-d. This amide bond is converted to the cis amide geometry in Me2-SO-d6. It is proposed that good substrates for the carboxylase require a trans amide bond between residues 21 and 22.

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PubMed2005

Synthesis and evaluation of cyclic secondary amine substituted phenyl and benzyl nitrofuranyl amides as novel antituberculosis agents.

In an ongoing effort to develop new and potent antituberculosis agents, a second-generation series of nitrofuranyl amides was synthesized on the basis of the lead compound 5-nitrofuran-2-carboxylic acid 3,4-dimethoxybenzylamide. The primary design consideration was to improve the solubility and consequently the bioavailability of the series by the addition of hydrophilic rings to the benzyl and phenyl B ring core. The synthesis of 27 cyclic, secondary amine substituted phenyl and benzyl nitrofuranyl amides is described and their activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis reported. The series showed a strong structure-activity relationship as the benzyl nitrofuranyl amides were significantly more active than similarly substituted phenyl nitrofuranyl amides. Para-substituted benzyl piperazines showed the most antituberculosis activity. Compounds in the series were subsequently selected for bioavailability and in vivo testing. This study led to the successful discovery of novel compounds with increased antituberculosis activity in vitro and a better understanding of the requisite pharmacological properties to advance this class.

Administration, Oral↗
PubMed1996

Inhibitors of acyl-CoA:cholesterol O-acyltransferase. synthesis and pharmacological activity of (+/-)-2-dodecyl-alpha-phenyl-N-(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)-2H-tetrazole-5- acetamide and structurally related tetrazole amide derivatives.

A series of tetrazole amide derivatives of (+/-)-2-dodecyl-alpha-phenyl-N-(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)-2H-tetrazole-5- acetamide (1) was prepared and evaluated for their ability to inhibit acyl-CoA: cholesterol O-acyltransferase (ACAT) in vitro and to lower plasma total cholesterol in vivo. For this series of compounds, our objective was to systematically replace substituents appended to the amide and tetrazole moieties of 1 with structurally diverse functionalities and assess the effect that these changes have on biological activity. The ensuing structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies identified aryl (7b) and heteroaryl (7f,g) replacements for 2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl that potently inhibit liver microsomal and macrophage ACAT in vitro and exhibit good cholesterol lowering activity (56-66% decreases in plasma total cholesterol at 30 mg/kg), relative to 1, when compared in the acute rat model of hypercholesterolemia. Replacement of the alpha-phenyl moiety with electron-withdrawing substituents (13e-h), however, significantly reduced liver microsomal ACAT inhibitory activity (IC50 > 1 microM). This is in contrast to electron-donating substituents (13ij,m-q), which produce IC50 values ranging from 5 to 75 nM in the hepatic microsomal assay. For selected tetrazole amides (1, 7b, 13n,o), reversing the order of substituents appended to the 2- and 5-positions in the tetrazole ring (36a-d), in general, improved macrophage ACAT inhibitory activity and provided excellent cholesterol-lowering activity (ranging from 65% to 77% decreases in plasma total cholesterol at 30 mg/kg) in the acute rat screen. The most potent isomeric pair in this set of unsubstituted methylene derivatives (13n and 36a) caused adrenocortical cell degeneration in guinea pigs treated with these inhibitors. In contrast, adrenal glands taken from guinea pigs treated with the corresponding alpha-phenyl-substituted analogs (7b and 36c) were essentially unchanged compared to untreated controls. Subsequent evaluation of 7b and 36c in a rabbit bioassay showed that both compounds and/or their metabolities were present in plasma after oral dosing. Unlike 7b and 36c, compound 1 and related 2,4,6-trimethoxyanilides (13j, 30c,d) showed poor oral activity in the rabbit bioassay. Nevertheless, in cholesterol-fed rabbits, both systemically available (7b, 36c) and poorly absorbed inhibitors (1, 36d) were more effective in lowering plasma total cholesterol than the fatty acid amide CI-976.

Animals↗
PubMed1999

N(omega)-Nitroarginine-containing dipeptide amides. Potent and highly selective inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase.

Selective inhibition of the isoforms of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) could be therapeutically useful in the treatment of certain disease states arising from the overproduction of nitric oxide (NO). Recently, we reported the dipeptide methyl ester, D-Phe-D-Arg(NO)()2-OMe (19), as a modest inhibitor of nNOS (K(i) = 2 microM), but with selectivity over iNOS as high as 1800-fold (Silverman, R. B.; Huang, H.; Marletta, M. A.; Martasek, P. J. Med. Chem. 1997, 40, 2813-2817). Here a library of 152 dipeptide amides containing nitroarginine and amino acids other than Phe are synthesized and screened for activity. Excellent inhibitory potency and selectivity for nNOS over eNOS and iNOS is achieved with the dipeptide amides containing a basic amine side chain (20-24), which indicates a possible electrostatic (or hydrogen bonding) interaction at the enzyme active site. The most potent nNOS inhibitor among these compounds is L-Arg(NO)()2-L-Dbu-NH(2) (23) (K(i) = 130 nM), which also exhibits the highest selectivity over eNOS (>1500-fold) with a 192-fold selectivity over iNOS. These compounds do not exhibit time-dependent inhibition. The order and the chirality of the amino acids in the dipeptide amides have profound influences on the inhibitory potency as well as on the isoform selectivity. These dipeptide amide inhibitors open the door to the design of potent and highly selective inhibitors of nNOS.

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PubMed2002

Theory supplemented by experiment. Electronic effects on the rotational stability of the amide group in p-substituted acetanilides.

The electronic effect of polar substituents on the barrier of internal rotation around the amide carbon-nitrogen bond in a series of 10 p-substituted acetanilides is studied by applying density functional theory at the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level. The theoretical results are supplemented by experimental data on the amide C=O and N-H stretching mode frequency shifts. It is shown that computations at the theoretical level employed provide a valuable approach in studying the factors determining the conformational stability of the studied series of compounds. It is found that an excellent linear dependence between the barriers of rotation and frequency shifts exists. It is concluded that the variations of the amide C=O stretching mode frequency can be used for quantitative characterization of the amide group conformational flexibility in the studied series of acetanilides.

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PubMed2003

Conformation of secondary amides. A predictive algorithm that correlates DFT-calculated structures and experimental proton chemical shifts.

The magnetic deshielding caused by the amido group on CON-CHalpha protons of secondary amides can easily be correlated with DFT-based structures at the B3LYP/6-31G level of theory via a novel algorithm that refines previous models, such as the classical McConnell equation. The shift is given by delta = a + 2.16 cos2(alpha - 35)/d, where alpha denotes the virtual dihedral angle resulting from linking the carbonyl and the alpha-carbons and d is the distance (A) between the shifted proton and the carbonyl oxygen. Notably, in this equation a is a parameter that can be optimized for different solvents, namely, CDCl3, DMSO-d6, and D2O. For the development of these correlations, the preferential conformation of amides is taken from the optimized structures in the gas phase obtained at the DFT level. The deshielding on anti and gauche protons in both rotamers of (Z)-acetamides and E/Z isomers of formamides has been evaluated. This methodology has proved to be highly reliable, allowing us to discard ab initio or DFT conformational arrangements when shifts calculated by the above-mentioned equation differ from the experimental values. Thus, the anti disposition between the CHalpha proton and the N-H bond appears to be the more stable conformation of simple amides. For amides bearing only one proton at Calpha, a local syn minimum can equally be characterized. The rotational barriers around the CON-alkyl bond along with the pyramidalization of the amido group have also been reassessed. As the conformation is taken away from anti or local syn minima, the nonplanarity of the amido group appears to increase.

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PubMed1996

Determination of the Absolute Configuration of Amines and alpha-Amino Acids by (1)H NMR of (R)-O-Aryllactic Acid Amides.

(R)-O-Aryllactic acid (ROAL) amides derived from alpha-chiral primary amines and alpha-amino acid esters show different chemical shifts in (1)H NMR spectroscopy (300 MHz) depending on their configuration. Molecular mechanics, semiempirical calculations, and (1)H NMR studies suggest that, in solution, these amides prefer an ap-Z conformation with the C(alpha)OAr and C=O groups close to anti-periplanar as in the case of mandelic acid amides. The proposed conformational preference is different from that of the ROAL esters (C(alpha)H and C=O groups in a syn-periplanar conformation). The conformational model for ROAL amides allows the absolute configuration assignment of primary amines and alpha-amino acid esters according to the relative position of the aryl group and the substituents on the amine moiety, and also their enantiomeric composition.

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PubMed1996

Synthetic Ionophores. 13. Pyridine-Diamide-Diester Receptors: Remarkable Effect of Amide Substituents on Molecular Organization and Ag(+) Selectivity.

The N(Py).HN(amide) hydrogen bonding within the macrocyclic cavities in 9, 10, and 13 invokes their symmetrical electron-deficient structures ((1)H NMR) and consequently bind with water. This results in their poor ionophore characters. The steric requirement of methyl/benzyl substituents on amide N in 11 and 12 takes the substituents out of the cavity and thus positions the amide O toward the cavity ((1)H, (13)C NMR and X-ray analysis). This arrangement of two pyridine N and two amide O ((13)C NMR, IR) binding sites provides an appropriate environment for selective binding toward Ag(+) over Pb(2+), Tl(+), alkali, and alkaline earth cations. The increased spacer length in 14 leads to a lop-sided twist of pyridine rings (X-ray) and disturbs the above arrangement and leads to its poor binding character.

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