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- Title
2,5-Di-tert-butyl-2,5-diethylpyrrolidine-1-oxyls: Where Is a Reasonable Limit of Sterical Loading for Higher Resistance to Reduction?
- Authors
Zhurko, Irina F.; Dobrynin, Sergey A.; Glazachev, Yurii I.; Gatilov, Yuri V.; Kirilyuk, Igor A.
- Abstract
The pyrrolidine nitroxides with four bulky alkyl substituents adjacent to the N–O∙ group demonstrate very high resistance to reduction with biogenic antioxidants and enzymatic systems. This makes them valuable molecular tools for studying the structure and functions of biomolecules directly in a living cell and for functional EPR and NMR tomography in vivo. The first example of highly strained pyrrolidine nitroxides with both ethyl and tert-butyl groups at each of the α-carbon atoms of the nitroxide moiety with cis-configuration of the tert-butyl groups was prepared using a three-component domino reaction of tert-leucine and 2,2-dimethylpentan-3-one with dimethyl fumarate with subsequent conversion of the resulting strained pyrrolidine into 1-pyrroline-1-oxide and addition of EtLi. The nitroxide has demonstrated unexpectedly fast reduction with ascorbate, the rate constant k2 = (2.0 ± 0.1) × 10−3 M−1s−1. This effect was explained by destabilization of the planar nitroxide moiety due to repulsion with the two neighboring tert-butyl groups cis to each other.
- Subjects
NITROXIDES; DIMETHYL fumarate; ETHYL group; PYRROLIDINE
- Publication
Molecules, 2024, Vol 29, Issue 3, p599
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules29030599