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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 1999 Feb 01;38(3):348-351. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990201)38:3<348::AID-ANIE348>3.0.CO;2-D.

Supramolecular Catalysis of Ester and Amide Cleavage by a Dinuclear Barium(II) Complex.

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)

Roberta Cacciapaglia, Stefano Di Stefano, Erik Kelderman, Luigi Mandolini

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Chimica and Centro CNR di Studio sui Meccanismi di Reazione, Università La Sapienza, Box 34-ROMA 62, I-00185 Roma (Italy), Fax: (+390)?6-490421.

PMID: 29711642 DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990201)38:3<348::AID-ANIE348>3.0.CO;2-D

Abstract

Five components spontaneously self-assemble to yield the productive complex 1, where one barium ion delivers an ethoxide to the carbonyl group of an amide substrate anchored by means of a distal carboxylate moiety to the other barium ion. High substrate specificity, fairly high reaction rates with catalytic turnover, and competitive inhibition by inert substrates are observed.

© 1999 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Fed. Rep. of Germany.

Keywords: Alkaline earth metals; Enzyme mimetics; Macrocyclic ligands; Supramolecular chemistry

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