Adenosine hypodiphosphate ester, an analogue of ADP: analysis of the adenine-hypodiphosphate interaction mode in hypodiphosphate nucleotides and adenine salts.

Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) plays a crucial role in cell biochemistry, especially in metabolic pathways and energy storage. ADP itself, as well as many of its analogues, such as adenosine hypodiphosphate (AhDP), has been studied extensively, in particular in terms of enzymatic activity. However, structural studies in the solid state, especially for AhDP, are still missing.

Zwitterionic phosphorylated quinines as chiral solvating agents for NMR spectroscopy.

Because of their unique 3D arrangement, naturally occurring Cinchona alkaloids and their synthetic derivatives have found wide-ranging applications in chiral recognition. Recently, we determined the enantioselective properties of C-9-phosphate mixed triesters of quinine as versatile chiral solvating agents in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. In the current study, we introduce new zwitterionic members of this class of molecules containing a negatively charged phosphate moiety (i.

Addition of H-phosphonates to quinine-derived carbonyl compounds. An unexpected C9 phosphonate-phosphate rearrangement and tandem intramolecular piperidine elimination.

The Abramov reaction, a base-catalyzed nucleophilic addition of dialkyl H-phosphonates (phosphites) to carbonyl compounds, was performed with oxidized quinine derivatives as the substrates. Homologous aldehydes obtained from the vinyl group reacted in a typical way which led to α-hydroxyphosphonates, first reported compounds containing a direct P-C bond between the quinine carbon skeleton and a phosphorus atom. For the C9 ketones a phosphonate-phosphate rearrangement, associated with a tandem elimination of the piperidine fragment, was evidenced.

Phosphorylation as a method of tuning the enantiodiscrimination potency of quinine--an NMR study.

Quinines phosphorylated at the C-9 hydroxyl group (diphenyl and diethyl phosphates) were synthesized and validated as novel effective chiral solvating agents in two alternative methods based on (1)H and (31)P NMR spectroscopy. Tested with a representative set of racemic analytes, the title compounds induced shift nonequivalence effects in (1)H NMR signals with values up to 0.1-0.