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About: Substituent is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 42877 publications have been published within this topic receiving 516716 citations. The topic is also known as: side chain & side group.


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TL;DR: In this paper, through-structure inductive substituent effects are discussed for the reference thermodynamic index, how the global substituents effect may be expressed as a function of this index, and how it may be dissected into individual effects assigned to each of the reaction steps.
Abstract: Redox pairs of transition metal complexes are often involved in small molecule activation in response to modern energy challenges as well as in other areas of electrocatalysis. Within such a family of molecular electrocatalysts, ligand substitution is a means of varying catalytic efficiency, best gauged through catalytic Tafel plots relating overpotential and turnover frequency. In practice, efficient molecular catalysis involves multielectron–multistep processes. It is in this framework that we discuss through-structure inductive substituent effects. What the best choice is for the reference thermodynamic index, how the global substituent effect may be expressed as a function of this index, and how it may be dissected into individual effects assigned to each of the reaction steps are challenging questions that are addressed and resolved here for the first time. The discussion is illustrated by the effect of successive phenyl perfluoration and of o,o′-methoxy substitution of the FeI/0 tetraphenylporphyrin...

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TL;DR: The results strongly support the proposal that the stability of triple helices containing fluorinated or hydroxylated prolines in Y positions is related to the necessity of having up puckerings in those positions.
Abstract: The importance of local (intraresidue) effects in determining the stability of the collagen triple helix has been investigated with special reference to the role played by hydroxyproline. To this end the dipeptide analogues of L-proline (ProDA), 4(R)-hydroxy-L-proline (HypDA), and 4(R)-fluoro-L-proline (FlpDA) have been studied by means of quantum mechanical ab initio calculations, taking into account solvent effects by the polarizable continuum model (PCM). Our results confirm that the relative stability of up puckerings of the pyrrolidine ring increases with the electronegativity of the 4(R) substituent (X), whereas down puckerings are favored by 4(S) electronegative substituents. Calculations on model compounds show that this effect is due to the interaction between vicinal C-H bonding and C-X antibonding orbitals. Electronegative substituents on the pyrrolidine ring affect cis-trans isomerism around the peptidic bond, with trans isomers stabilized by 4(R) substituents and cis isomers by 4(S) substituents. Also the hydrogen bonding power of the carbonyl moiety following the pyrrolidine ring is affected by 4(R) substituents, but this effect is tuned by the polarity of the embedding medium. Finally, up puckering favors smaller values of the backbone dihedrals phi and psi. All these results strongly support the proposal that the stability of triple helices containing fluorinated or hydroxylated prolines in Y positions is related to the necessity of having up puckerings in those positions.

128 citations

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TL;DR: The relations between the chemical structure of non-electrolytes and their ability to permeate cell membranes are analysed at the level of molecular forces, using the measurements of reflexion coefficients in gall-bladder epithelial cells tabulated in the preceding paper.
Abstract: The relations between the chemical structure of non-electrolytes and their ability to permeate cell membranes are analysed at the level of molecular forces, using the measurements of reflexion coefficients in gall-bladder epithelial cells tabulated in the preceding paper. Stronger solute: water forces and weaker solute: membrane forces are associated with lower permeating power. The portions of the membrane controlling non-electrolyte permeation behave as nearly pure hydrocarbons with very few hydrogen-bonding sites. Most substituents (hydroxyl, ether, carbonyl, ester, amino, amide, urea, nitrile) are shown to decrease permeation in proportion to the number and strength of intermolecular hydrogen bonds which they form with water, while intramolecular hydrogen bonding accelerates permeation. Carbon-carbon double bonds and triple bonds and aromatic residues decrease permeability due to hydrogen bonds involving $\pi $ electrons. Inductive effects, in which a substituent indirectly modifies permeability by withdrawing or releasing electrons at an adjacent hydrogen bonding site, are most noticeable for halogens, the nitro group, double and triple bonds, and branched alkyl groups. Altered forces between membrane hydrocarbons and the solute retard the permeation (weaker forces) of fluorine compounds and branched compounds, and slightly accelerate the permeation (stronger forces) of other halogen derivatives and compounds with long carbon chains. The main factor in the increase of permeability with increasing hydrocarbon chain length is an entropy effect associated with a change in local water structure; and this effect is partly responsible for the decrease in permeability with chain branching, whose origin is particularly complex.

128 citations

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TL;DR: Copper and nickel complexes having various active-oxygen species M n -O 2 can be produced by a series of tetradentate tripodal ligands containing sterically demanding 6-methyl substituent on the pyridyl group.
Abstract: Copper and nickel complexes having various active-oxygen species Mn–O2 (n = 1 or 2), such as trans-(μ-1,2-peroxo)CuII2, bis(μ-oxo)MIII2, bis(μ-superoxo)NiII2, and ligand-based alkylperoxo-MIIn, can be produced by a series of tetradentate tripodal ligands (TMPA analogues) containing sterically demanding 6-methyl substituent(s) on the pyridyl group(s), where TMPA = tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine. Roles of the methyl substituent(s) for the formation of the active-oxygen species and their oxidation reactivities are reported.

127 citations

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01 Feb 1992-Langmuir
TL;DR: In this article, the role of phenyl substituent groups in the formation of surface complexes at the surface of titanium dioxide semiconducting ceramic membranes is investigated with cylindrical internal reflection-Fourier transform infrared (CIR-FTIR) spectroscopy.
Abstract: The role of phenyl substituent groups in the formation of surface complexes at the surface of titanium dioxide semiconducting ceramic membranes is investigated with cylindrical internal reflection-Fourier transform infrared (CIR-FTIR) spectroscopy. The CIR-FTIR study presented in this article allows for direct comparison between adsorption mechanisms derived from vibrational spectra at the semiconductor-liquid interface and surface structures influencing aqueous heterogeneous photochemical reactions. Therefore, chemisorption mechanisms we derived for benzoic acid and its substituted compounds could be used for the prediction of their photodegradation behavior. This IR investigation confirms that no adsorption is detectable on the rutile phase of TiO2, thus excluding the role of 5-fold coordinated Ti cations in the adsorption mechanisms. We observed that, for anatase surface, isolated carboxyl groups do not generate a favorable adsorption equilibrium (e.g., benzoic acid). It is proposed that amino and hydroxyl groups substituted in ortho position to a carboxyl group (e.g., salicylic, 3-chlorosalicylic, and anthranilic acids) may lead to a mononuclear bidentate coordination complex with 4-fold coordinated surface titanium cations. The higher adsorption level observed for phthalic acid is interpreted as due to its possibility of adsorbing on a greater number of anatase surface sites, by forming two different surface complexes, involving one or both carboxyl groups. A relationship between change in vibrational spectra of the carboxyl group, for substituted benzoic derivatives, and acidic dissociation constants is presented.

127 citations


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20221,273
2021568
2020787
2019753
2018858