Association and dissociation rate constants were measured for O2, CO, and alkyl isocyanide binding to a set of genetically engineered sperm whale myoglobins with site-specific mutations at residue 64 (the E7 helical position). Native His was replaced by Gly, Val, Leu, Met, Phe, Gln, Arg, and Asp using the synthetic gene and expression system developed by Springer and Sligar (Springer, B. A., an...

A green and convenient protocol is described for the preparation of 1-(alkylamino)-3-(1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl)-2-methyl-1-oxopropan-2-yl benzoates via one-pot three-component reaction between 2-(2-oxopropyl)isoindoline-1,3-dione, an alkyl isocyanide and an aromatic carboxylic acid in water at room temperature. The methods used to follow the reactions are TLC and NMR, which indicated that there...

was also made for n-propyl isocyanide, which was suspected, because of its color, to be contaminated with a small amount of n-propyl iodide. The values of the equilibrium constants were averaged, with the concentration of free isocyanide as a weight factor. The equilibrium constants obtained in this way are 2.0 X 105 for ethyl isocyanide, 1.1 X 105 for n-propyl isocyanide, 1.4 X 104 for isoprop...

A green and convenient protocol is described for the preparation of E-1-(alkylamino)-3- (1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl)-2-methyl-1-oxopropan-2-yl viaone-pot three-component reaction between 2-(2-oxopropyl)isoindoline-1,3-dione, an alkyl isocyanide and an E-cinnamic acid in water at room temperature. The methods used to follow the reactions are TLC and NMR, which indicated that there is no side produ...

The adsorption of methyl isocyanide (CH3NC) and acetonitrile (CH3CN) has been studied on Pd(111). Methyl isocyanide adsorbs on Pd(111) at 80 K at low coverages with the isocyanide functionality oriented close to parallel to the surface; the surface-bound species reorients to a geometry in which the isocyanide group is perpendicular to the surface as the coverage increases. Desorbing the excess ...

Site-directed mutants of sperm whale myoglobin were prepared to probe the functional role of the highly conserved distal pocket valine residue, Val68(E11). This amino acid was replaced with Ala, Ile, and Phe to examine the effects of the side chain volume at position 68 on ligand binding. Three double mutants were also constructed in which the distal His64(E7) was replaced with Gly and Val68 wa...

The 02, CO, and alkyl isocyanide-binding properties of a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate heme proteins have been compared in detail to those of protoheme mOn0-3-( 1-imidazoy1)-propylamide monomethyl ester in aqueous suspensions of soap micelles. The proteins examined include: cytochrome P-450,,, from Pseudomonasputida, beef heart cytochrome c oxidase, yeast cytochrome c peroxidase, a and...

Isocyanide is a potential antifouling compound in marine environments. In this study, we investigated its mode of action in three aquatic organisms. Two of them, the bryozoan Bugula neritina and the barnacle Balanus amphitrite, are major marine fouling invertebrates, and the other organism is the non-target species zebrafish Danio rerio. In the swimming larvae of B. neritina, isocyanide did not...

In this work we report a study on the effect of systematic ancillary ligand modifications on electrochemical and photophysical properties of cationic biscyclometalated bis(arylisocyanide)iridium(iii) complexes. Nine new Ir(iii) complexes were synthesized using three different cyclometalating (C^N) ligands (2,4-difluorophenylpyridine (F2ppy), 2-benzothienylpyridine (btp), and 2-phenylbenzothiazo...