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Molecular structure of nitrophenyl O ‐glycosides in relation to their redox potentials
Author(s) -
Gubica Tomasz,
Temeriusz Andrzej,
Pawłowski Paweł,
Stroka Jadwiga
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of physical organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1395
pISSN - 0894-3230
DOI - 10.1002/poc.1673
Subject(s) - chemistry , nitro , redox , medicinal chemistry , glycosidic bond , moiety , cyclic voltammetry , stereochemistry , electrochemistry , organic chemistry , enzyme , alkyl , electrode
The effect of the non‐electroactive groups on the redox potentials of the active centres of 26 nitrophenyl O ‐glycosides possessing various substituents has been studied electrochemically using cyclic voltammetry. The potentials of both redox processes, a two‐electron quasi‐reversible R ‐NHOH/ R ‐NO ( E f ) and four‐electron irreversible R ‐NO 2 / R ‐NHOH ( E pc (I)) systems, have been determined and compared for all the compounds under investigations. The nitrophenyl O ‐glycosides were chosen as model compounds as they significantly vary in many aspects of their structure such as: (i) the isomeric substitution of nitro group in benzene ring to the sugar moiety ( ortho , meta and para isomers); (ii) the size of sugar moieties (the derivatives of mono‐ and disaccharides); (iii) the presence and absence of additional groups in saccharidic fragments (e.g. pentose and hexose); (iv) functionalisation of hydroxyl groups (free or acetylated hydroxyl groups) and (v) absolute configurations of selected sugar carbon atoms (e.g. the pairs of anomers). Among other effects, a significant variation in the increasing order of the two‐electron quasi‐reversible ( E f , ortho > meta > para ) and four‐electron irreversible ( E pc (I), meta > ortho > para ) redox processes has been found and explained taking into account the negative inductive effect (–I) caused by the glycosidic oxygen atom that facilitates the electroreduction of the nitro group, and the positive mesomeric effect (+M) which makes the electroreduction more difficult. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.