The Amide Linkage: Structural Significance in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Materials Science - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0471358932 ISBN 13: 9780471358930

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2000

Synopsis

The amide linkage is one of the most fundamental and widespread chemical bonds in nature, underlying the properties of a vast array of organic molecules, polymers, and materials, including peptides and proteins. Arthur Greenberg, Curt Breneman, and Joel Liebman’s peerless text provides comprehensive coverage of the experimental, structural, and computational findings that shed light on the chemical and physical properties of the amide linkage, as well as its emerging applications in materials and biotechnology.
Chapters in The Amide Linkage highlight how this chemical bond factors in the design of enzyme inhibitors, cyclic peptides, antibacterial agents, and emerging nanotechnology applications. This one-of-a-kind study also:

• Discusses selected aspects of chemical reactions, structure, bonding, and energetics of the amide bond, including amide rotational barriers, stereochemistry, complexation, spectroscopy, and thermochemistry
  
• Presents specific applications to supramolecular and stereospecific synthesis
  
• Discusses ke y aspects of peptide and protein chemistry–such as molecular recognition, conformation, and folding–in terms of the amide linkage
  
• Includes chapters contributed by numerous eminent chemists and biochemists

Organic, medicinal, polymer, and physical chemists, as well as biochemists and materials scientists, will find The Amide Linkage to be an invaluable addition to their professional libraries.

About this title

About the Author

ARTHUR GREENBERG, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of New Hampshire.

CURT M. BRENEMAN, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

JOEL F. LIEBMAN, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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THE AMIDE LINKAGE

SELECTED STRUCTURAL ASPECTS IN CHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY, AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.

Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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ISBN: 978-0-471-35893-0

Contents

Preface...................................................................................................................................................................................ixContributors..............................................................................................................................................................................xi1 The Electron Density Distribution of Amides and Related Compounds Curt M. Breneman and Martin Martinov.................................................................................12 Origin of the Amide Rotational Barrier Kenneth B. Wiberg...............................................................................................................................333 The Amide Linkage as a Ligand-Its Properties and the Role of Distortion Arthur Greenberg...............................................................................................474 Studies in Amide Hydrolysis: The Acid, Base, and Water Reactions Robert S. Brown.......................................................................................................855 The Thermochemistry of Amides Joel F. Liebman, Hussein Y. Afeefy, and Suzanne W. Slayden...............................................................................................1156 Stereospecificity in the a-Lactam (Aziridinone) Synthon Robert V. Hoffman..............................................................................................................1377 -Lactams: Cyclic Amides of Distinction Ajay K. Bose, Maghar S. Manhas, Bimal K. Banik, and Vaidyanathan Srirajan......................................................................1578 Sterically Hindered Twisted Amides Shinji Yamada.......................................................................................................................................2159 Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Amides and Lactams Paul Rademacher.......................................................................................................................24710 The Role of Amides in the Noncovalent Synthesis of Supramolecular Structures in Solution, at Interfaces, and in Solids G. Tayhas R. Palmore and John C. MacDonald.....................29111 -Lactam Antibacterial Agents: Computational Chemistry Investigations Donald B. Boyd..................................................................................................33712 Three-Dimensional Design of Enzyme Inhibitors with Heterocyclic Amide Bond Mimics Regine S. Bohacek and William C. Shakespeare........................................................37713 Ab Initio Conformational Analysis of Protein Subunits: A Case Study of the Serine Diamide Model Andras Perczel and Imre G. Csizmadia..................................................40914 Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry of Amides, Peptides, and Proteins Carolyn J. Cassady..........................................................................................................46315 -Sheet Interactions Between Proteins Santanu Maitra and James S. Nowick..............................................................................................................49516 Head-to-Tail Cyclic Peptides and Cyclic Peptide Libraries Arno F. Spatola and Peteris Romanovskis.....................................................................................51917 From Crystal Structures of Oligopeptides to Protein Folding: The Importance of Peptide Bond-Side Chain Hyperconjugation Andrzej S. Cieplak............................................56518 Role of the Peptide Bond in Protein Structure and Folding Neville R. Kallenbach, Anthony J. Bell, Jr., and Erik J. Spek...............................................................599Index.....................................................................................................................................................................................627

Preface

The amide linkage is a common and very important functional group which contributes to the special properties of peptides, proteins, beta-lactam antibiotics, and numerous synthetic polymers. The discovery of its rigid planarity and propensity for hydrogen bonding sped Linus Pauling's discovery of the alpha-helix and now offers a template for the design of exotic new materials. The present book presents many diverse aspects of the structure, bonding, and dynamics of amides and their influences on chemical, physical, biological, and material properties. It emphasizes a structural, energetics, and bonding perspective with a view toward understanding physical and chemical properties. The approach is also pedagogical in nature-its eighteen chapters provide background and context for the non-expert before going into depth in a particular area. This book is meant to be complementary to Zabicky's classic The Chemistry of Amides in the Patai series published in 1970, in that it is broader in scope and places less emphasis on the synthesis and reactions of amides. The Zabicky book continues to provide a great deal of useful background information for readers of the present book.

The amide linkage is undergoing a renaissance of interest at the start of the twenty-first century. When amide planarity and rigidity was discovered by Pauling and co-workers in the 1930s, this important attribute was rationalized by resonance theory-one of the widely accepted canons of modern chemistry. However, theories and "accepted knowledge" are challenged every generation and the first two chapters, by Breneman and then Wiberg, apply molecular orbital (MO) theory, density functional theory (DFT), and Bader's Atoms in Molecules (AIM) approach to achieve new levels of understanding of the structures and dynamics of amides. Chapter 3, by Greenberg, uses the more traditional resonance canon to understand the effects of distortion on the ligand properties (e.g., the site of protonation) of amides. Chapter 4 by Brown details the very subtle physical organic chemistry investigations of the minute details of acid- and base-catalyzed hydrolysis of lactams (cyclic amides). Although amides and lactams are normally stable to hydrolysis around neutral pH, he describes the kinetics and mechanistic details for highly distorted lactams that react under these conditions. Liebman, Afeefy, and Slayden (Chapter 5) summarize the thermochemical data for amides. As valuable as this information is for practical problems in engineering and for understanding structure and bonding, there is surprisingly little published data. Chapter 6 (Hoffman) and Chapter 7 (Bose, Manhas, Banik, and Srirajan) treat selected aspects of the stereoselective synthesis of alpha-lactams and beta-lactams. Chapter 7 also provides very interesting historical perspective on the role of serendipity in the discovery of penicillin and related antibiotics. In Chapter 8, Yamada explores the structural, spectroscopic, and chemical properties of acyclic amides twisted by virtue of steric repulsion. Rademacher (Chapter 9) explores the use of UV photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) as a means of understanding the nature of chemical bonding in planar and distorted amides and lactams.

Starting with Chapter 10 (Palmore and MacDonald), the emphasis switches towards larger amide-containing molecules. Palmore and MacDonald use hydrogen bonding, so vital to the structures of alpha-, beta- and other protein structures, to design new materials in which the sum of numerous weak-moderate H-bonds acting in concert more than equals the strength of attachment due to covalent bonds. Boyd's Chapter 11 nicely describes the role of the ab initio MO theory in the exploration of beta-lactam antibiotics. It provides additional perspective to this interesting history and leads into Chapter 12 (Bohacek and Shakespeare) which describes the design of new enzyme inhibitors as potential pharmaceutical agents. In Chapter 13, Perczel and Csizmadia explore the current limits of computing full conformational energy surfaces (Ramachandran plots) for peptides and proteins at accessible ab initio levels. Cassady (Chapter 14) explores the interactions of peptides and proteins with ions in order to elucidate both proton affinity and structural information. The idea of obtaining mass spectra of proteins seemed to be heretical until recently. In Chapter 15, Maitra and Nowick consider the interactions between beta-sheet proteins in order to gain important insights into molecular recognition. Chapter 16, by Spatola and Romanovskis, describes the generation of cyclic peptide libraries for use in the exploding field of combinatorial chemistry. Chapter 17 (Cieplak) and Chapter 18 (Kallenbach, Bell, and Spek) explore some of the myriad complexities in understanding the subtleties of protein folding that is so vital to our understanding of the biosynthesis and functioning of proteins including enzymes.

We hope that readers will find this book valuable, and will be encouraged to seek as yet unknown applications and understanding for the ubiquitous amide group.

Arthur Greenberg Charlotte, North Carolina

Curt M. Breneman Troy, New York

Joel F. Liebman Baltimore, Maryland

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Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0471358932
• ISBN 13: 9780471358930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672
• Editor: Greenberg Arthur, Breneman Curt M., Liebman Joel F.