{"id":12276,"date":"2014-04-13T17:12:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=12276"},"modified":"2023-07-02T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T07:19:30","slug":"artemisinin-are-stereo-electronics-at-the-core-of-its-reactivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=12276","title":{"rendered":"Artemisinin: are stereo-electronics at the core of its (re)activity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"12276\">\n<p>\n\tAround 100 tons of the potent antimalarial artemisinin is produced annually; a remarkable quantity given its very unusual and fragile looking molecular structure (below). When I looked at this, I was immediately struck by a thought: surely this is a classic molecule for analyzing stereoelectronic effects (anomeric and gauche). Here this aspect is explored.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"artemisinin\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin.svg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI start by listing the bonds around which interesting things might happen:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n\t\tC3-C4 has the gauche motif of a 1,2-diol\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCarbons 7 and 4 are anomeric centres, with the focus on bonds 1-7\/7-6 and 6-4\/4-5\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tBond 1-2 has the potential for a so-called &alpha;-effect, where the lone pairs on adjacent hetero-atoms are buttressed.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n\tThe crystal structure is shown below, annotated with pertinent bond lengths (trivial atom numbering). The dihedral 2-3-4-6 and 2-3-4-6 are respectively -51 and 72&deg; (hence a double gauche at the 3-4 bond).\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12290\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12290\" alt=\"Click for 3D\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12290\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/','JmolAppletSigned.jar');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/QNGHSU11.mol2;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin22.jpg\" width=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin22.jpg 795w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin22-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for 3D<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\tFirst, an exploration of what might be happening around C4. The following is a search of the Cambridge crystal structure database, plotted for the two C-O bond lengths common to C4.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"artemisinin1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12284\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin1.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"artemisinin\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin.jpg\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/a> Here, DIST1 is C4-O6 and DIST2 is C4-O5. Notice the very pronounced asymmetry; at the red hotspot above, the most frequent occurrence is ~1.39 and 1.46&Aring; respectively; artemisinin is more or less at that hotspot. This can be quantified by the NBO E(2) energies for the interaction of an oxygen lone pair antiperiplanar to the C-O &sigma;* bond;\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n\t\tLp(O6)-&sigma;*(C4-O5) = 21.2 kcal\/mol which helps to account for the short C4-O6 and the long C4-O5 bonds.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\twhereas the reverse donation of Lp(O5)-&sigma;*(C4-O6) is merely 4.8 kcal\/mol (normally the two donations are more or less equal, and hence so at the two C-O bond lengths).\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAt the second anomeric centre of C7, Lp(O1)-&sigma;*(C7-O6) = 19.9 kcal\/mol\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\twhereas the reverse donation of Lp(O6)-&sigma;*(C7-O1) is 5.7 kcal\/mol, again highly asymmetric, as are the C-O bond lengths (1.413\/1.441&Aring;).\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNext, the gauche effect at C3-C4. The C4-H to C3-O2 donation is 6.4 kcal\/mol, again contributing to the longer C-O length of 1.447&Aring;.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n\tWhere such stereoelectronic interactions are asymmetric, one might expect enhanced reactivity. A good example of this are two stereoisomeric of a 7-ring herbicide<span id=\"cite_ITEM-12276-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-12276-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> where one anomer with equal anomeric C-O lengths is a stable soil-persistent species, whereas the other with asymmetric lengths has a very short soil residency due to rapid hydrolysis. It might be tempting to speculate that some aspect of the activity of artemisinin may be due to such stereoelectronic asymmetries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFinally, because it is virtually free to do so in a computational sense, I show the computed VCD spectrum<span id=\"cite_ITEM-12276-1\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-12276-1\">[2]<\/a><\/span> (covering the possibility that it is measured at some point). The calculated<span id=\"cite_ITEM-12276-2\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-12276-2\">[3]<\/a><\/span> optical rotation ([&alpha;]<sub>589<\/sub> is +93&deg; (obs ~+76&deg;). Whilst the absolute configuration is not in any doubt, it is always nice to have further confirmations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin1.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"artemisinin\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/artemisinin1.svg\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This post has DOI: 10.14469\/hpc\/12766<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol class=\"kcite-bibliography csl-bib-body\"><li id=\"ITEM-12276-0\">P. Camilleri, D. Munro, K. Weaver, D.J. Williams, H.S. Rzepa, and A.M.Z. Slawin, \"Isoxazolinyldioxepins. Part 1. Structure\u2013reactivity studies of the hydrolysis of oxazolinyldioxepin derivatives\", <i>J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2<\/i>, pp. 1929-1933, 1989. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/p29890001929\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/p29890001929<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-12276-1\">H.S. Rzepa, \"Gaussian Job Archive for C15H22O5\", 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.997360\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.997360<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-12276-2\">H.S. Rzepa, \"Gaussian Job Archive for C15H22O5\", 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.997463\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.997463<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 12276 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 100 tons of the potent antimalarial artemisinin is produced annually; a remarkable quantity given its very unusual and fragile looking molecular structure (below). When I looked at this, I was immediately struck by a thought: surely this is a classic molecule for analyzing stereoelectronic effects (anomeric and gauche). 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