{"id":14740,"date":"2015-11-12T14:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=14740"},"modified":"2023-09-17T07:12:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T06:12:20","slug":"how-to-stop-some-acetals-hydrolysing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=14740","title":{"rendered":"How to stop (some) acetals hydrolysing."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"14740\">\n<p>Derek Lowe has a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sciencemag.org\/pipeline\/archives\/2015\/11\/05\/another-funny-looking-structure-comes-through\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent post<\/a> entitled &quot;<em>Another Funny-Looking Structure Comes Through<\/em>&quot;. He cites a recent medchem article<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> in which the following acetal sub-structure appears in a promising drug candidate (blue component below). His point is that orally taken drugs have to survive acid (green below) encountered in the stomach, and acetals are famously sensitive to hydrolysis (red below). But if X=NH<sub>2<\/sub>, compound &quot;G-5555&quot; is apparently stable to acids.<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> So I pose the question here; why? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetal.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"acetal\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14752\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetal.svg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This reminded me of some work we did a few years ago on herbicides containing such an acetal substructure, where one diastereoisomer was very unstable to hydrolysis (and hence did not have the lifetime required of a herbicide) whereas the other diastereomer was far less labile and hence more suitable.<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-1\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-1\">[2]<\/a><\/span>,<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-2\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-2\">[3]<\/a><\/span> Crystal structures (below) revealed that the two C-O bond lengths of the labile form were very unequal in length (&Delta;0.043&Aring;), whereas the stable form had two equal C-O lengths (1.40&Aring;, &Delta;=0.0&Aring;). <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/KAWYOW.jpg\" alt=\"Click for 3D\" width=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14749 wp-caption aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/KAWYOW.jpg 407w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/KAWYOW-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is one example<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-3\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-3\">[4]<\/a><\/span>,<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-4\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-4\">[5]<\/a><\/span> of an orthoformate in which the group equivalent to X is protonated as Me<sub>2<\/sub>NH<sup>+<\/sup>. For this example, all three C-O lengths are shorter than even the hydrolytically stable herbicide above (1.405, 1.402, 1.396&Aring;). The distribution for 6-ring acetals in general shows hot-spots at ~1.415&Aring; and 1.43&Aring; (but sadly it is not possible to <em>e.g.<\/em> use this database to correlate these lengths with the aqueous stability of the entries). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OCO.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OCO\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14771\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OCO.jpg\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OCO.jpg 776w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OCO-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Is this tentative further evidence that a group X = NH<sub>2<\/sub> positioned as above in an acetal can inhibit its hydrolysis? <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14757\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14757\" alt=\"HUZKEZ, click for 3D\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14757\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/','JmolAppletSigned.jar');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HUZKES.cif;spin 3;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/huzkes.jpg\" width=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/huzkes.jpg 1247w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/huzkes-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/huzkes-939x1024.jpg 939w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/huzkes-900x982.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1247px) 100vw, 1247px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HUZKEZ, click for 3D<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Time for calculations. A model (X=R=H) for the hydrolysis was constructed as above in which proton transfer from an acid (ethanoic) is achieved <em>via<\/em> a cyclic 8-ring transition state and which includes a continuum solvent field as &omega;B97XD\/6-311G(d,p)\/SCRF=water and one explicit water in the proton relay. The IRC looks thus: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetalH.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"acetalH\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetalH.svg\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This shows that the first event is protonation of an oxygen, closely followed by cleavage of the associated C-O bond, and ending with deprotonation of the erstwhile water molecule. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetalha.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"acetalha\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetalha.gif\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The value of &Delta;G<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup><sub>298<\/sub> is 38.2 kcal\/mol (38.4 in relative total energy). Although rather high for a facile thermal reaction (perhaps the 8-ring TS is a bit too strained; possibly adding a second active water molecule to form a 10-ring might lead to a lower barrier?), we are more interested in the effect upon this barrier of group X (Table below).\n<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>\n\t\t\t\tX\n\t\t\t<\/th>\n<th>\n\t\t\t\t&Delta;E\n\t\t\t<\/th>\n<th>\n\t\t\t\t&Delta;G<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup>\n\t\t\t<\/th>\n<th>\n\t\t\t\tDataDOI,TS\n\t\t\t<\/th>\n<th>\n\t\t\t\tDataDOI,IRC\n\t\t\t<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tH\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t38.4\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t38.2\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-5\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-5\">[6]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-6\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-6\">[7]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tNH<sub>2<\/sub>,eq\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t39.8\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t38.8\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-7\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-7\">[8]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-8\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-8\">[9]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tNH<sub>3<\/sub>.Cl,eq\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t45.1\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t43.1\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-9\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-9\">[10]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-10\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-10\">[11]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tNH<sub>3<\/sub>.Cl,ax\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t42.6\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t41.5\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-11\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-11\">[12]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-12\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-12\">[13]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tCF<sub>3<\/sub>,eq<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t41.9\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t40.1\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-13\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-13\">[14]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-14\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-14\">[15]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tSF<sub>5<\/sub>,eq<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t43.6\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t42.4\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-15\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-15\">[16]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14740-16\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14740-16\">[17]<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nIntroduction of X=NH<sub>3<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup>.Cl<sup>&#8211;<\/sup> into an (equatorial) position which is antiperiplanar to the C-O bonds of the acetal produces a modified IRC profile. The barrier measured at a point IRC = -10 is ~41 kcal\/mol, which is noticeably higher than for X=H. In fact the final barrier is even higher, since the reactant goes on to form a hydrogen bond between the water molecule and the Cl<sup>&#8211;<\/sup>, an extra stabilisation not present with X=H (and so not really appropriate to include in the comparison). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetal-NH3Cl.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"acetal-NH3Cl\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14793\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetal-NH3Cl.svg\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetalnh3cl-eqa.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"acetalnh3cl-eqa\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/acetalnh3cl-eqa.gif\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Placing the X=NH<sub>3<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup>.Cl<sup>&#8211;<\/sup> into an (axial) position which is not antiperiplanar to the C-O bonds shows a lower barrier compared to the equatorial isomer. This difference can also be illustrated by the NBO localised orbital energies of the two reactants. With X=NH<sub>3<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup>.Cl<sup>&#8211;<\/sup> axial, the lone pair on the oxygen being protonated by the acid has an energy of -0.464 au, whereas the equatorial equivalent is a &quot;less reactive&quot; -0.471 au (a difference in energy of 4.4 kcal\/mol, which is VERY approximately related to the effects being discussed). I conclude that the inhibition of acetal solvolysis is induced by the presence of an electron withdrawing group X, <i>via<\/i> antiperiplanar effects on the basicity of the acetal oxygen. In moderately low pH, X=NH<sub>2<\/sub> is likely to be fully protonated; in this state, X=NH<sub>3<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup>.Cl<sup>&#8211;<\/sup> is an even better electron withdrawing group. The effect is also much stronger if X = equatorial. So one can predict here that if the alternate stereoisomer with X = axial were to be synthesised, it would hydrolyse more quickly. Other groups (X=F, CN etc) would probably show similar behaviour.<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\t<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup> I have added two further entries, X=CF<sub>3<\/sub> and X=SF<sub>5<\/sub> in the table above, showing the latter to be more effective at inhibiting hydrolysis.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Acknowledgments<\/h4>\n<p>This post has been cross-posted in PDF format at <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15200\/winn.145586.67265\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Authorea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol class=\"kcite-bibliography csl-bib-body\"><li id=\"ITEM-14740-0\">C.O. Ndubaku, J.J. Crawford, J. Drobnick, I. Aliagas, D. Campbell, P. Dong, L.M. Dornan, S. Duron, J. Epler, L. Gazzard, C.E. Heise, K.P. Hoeflich, D. Jakubiak, H. La, W. Lee, B. Lin, J.P. Lyssikatos, J. Maksimoska, R. Marmorstein, L.J. Murray, T. O\u2019Brien, A. Oh, S. Ramaswamy, W. Wang, X. Zhao, Y. Zhong, E. Blackwood, and J. 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Rzepa, \"C 6 H 13 F 5 O 5 S 1\", 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/191595\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/191595<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-14740-16\">H.S. Rzepa, \"Gaussian Job Archive for C6H13F5O5S\", 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.1603420\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.1603420<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 14740 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Lowe has a recent post entitled &quot;Another Funny-Looking Structure Comes Through&quot;. He cites a recent medchem article in which the following acetal sub-structure appears in a promising drug candidate (blue component below). His point is that orally taken drugs have to survive acid (green below) encountered in the stomach, and acetals are famously sensitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":5,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1086],"tags":[144,1313,78,1549,1591,1592],"ppma_author":[2661],"class_list":["post-14740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reaction-mechanism-2","tag-cambridge","tag-derek-lowe","tag-html","tag-html-element","tag-medchem","tag-medical-chemistry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to stop (some) acetals hydrolysing. - Henry Rzepa&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=14740\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to stop (some) acetals hydrolysing. - Henry Rzepa&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Derek Lowe has a recent post entitled &quot;Another Funny-Looking Structure Comes Through&quot;. 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