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Universal Anticancer Cu(DTC)2 Discriminates between Thiols and Zinc(II) Thiolates Oxidatively
Xu, Luyan,Xu, Jialin,Zhu, Jingwei,Yao, Zijian,Yu, Na,Deng, Wei,Wang, Yu,Lin, Bo-Lin
supporting information, p. 6070 - 6073 (2019/03/29)
Aerobic organisms must rely on abundant intracellular thiols to reductively protect various vital functional units, especially ubiquitous zinc(II) thiolate sites of proteins, from deleterious oxidations resulting from oxidizing environments. Disclosed here is the first well-defined model study for reactions between zinc(II) thiolate complexes and copper(II) complexes. Among all the studied ligands of copper(II), diethyldithiocarbamate (DTC) displays a unique redox-tuning ability that enables copper(II) to resist the reduction by thiols while retaining its ability to oxidize zinc(II) thiolates to form disulfides. This work proves for the first time that it is possible to develop oxidants to discriminate between thiols and zinc(II) thiolates, alluding to a new chemical principle for how oxidants, especially universal anticancer Cu(DTC)2, might circumvent the intracellular reductive defense around certain zinc(II) thiolate sites of proteins to kill malignant cells.
A new sulfenylation reagent, 3-phenylsulfenyl-2-(N- cyanoimino)thiazolidine, and its optically active version
Tanaka,Azuma,Fang,Uchida,Iwata,Ishida,In,Maezaki
, p. 33 - 36 (2007/10/03)
We have developed a new sulfenylation reagent, 3-phenylsulfenyl-2-(N- cyanoimino)thiazolidine 3, that is readily available and stable upon storage. Compound 3 easily reacts with amines or thiols to give the corresponding sulfenamides or asymmetrical disulfides in excellent yields. It was also found that the α-sulfenylation reaction of carbonyl compounds with 3 proceeds smoothly. Furthermore, optically active 4-diphenylmethyl derivative 4 was synthesized as an asymmetric sulfenylation reagent, which realized 96% e.e. upon α-sulfenylation of a cyclic β-keto ester.
Disproportionation reaction of disulfides promoted by nitric oxide (NO) in the presence of oxygen
Itoh, Takashi,Tsutsumi, Nozomi,Ohsawa, Akio
, p. 2161 - 2166 (2007/10/03)
Two disulfides brought about disproportionation reaction to afford an unsymmetrical disulfide in 50% yield with a catalytic amount of nitric oxide in the presence of oxygen. The reaction proceeded faster when alkyl disulfides were employed for the reaction, and the substituent effects suggested that the reaction commenced with an oxidative process.