As determined by both H NMR and UV/Vis spectroscopic titration, ESI-MS, isothermal titration calorimetry, and DFT molecular modeling, advanced glycation end products (AGE) breaker alagebrium (ALA) formed 1:1 guest-host inclusion complexes with cucurbit[7]uril (CB[7]), with a binding affinity, K , in the order of magnitude of 10 m , thermodynamically driven by both enthalpy (ΔH=-6.79 kcal mol ) and entropy (TΔS=1.21 kcal mol ). For the first time, a dramatic inhibition of keto-enol tautomerism of the carbonyl α-hydrogen of ALA has been observed, as evidenced by over an order of magnitude decrease of both the first step rate constant, k , and the second step rate constant, k , during hydrogen/deuterium exchange in D O. Meanwhile, as expected, the reactivity of C2-hydrogen was also inhibited significantly, with an upshift of 2.09 pK units. This discovery will not only provide an emerging host molecule to modulate keto-enol tautomerism, but also potentially lead to a novel supramolecular formulation of AGE-breaker ALA for improved stability and therapeutic efficacy.
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