PMID- 21308811 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110413 LR - 20110223 IS - 1521-3765 (Electronic) IS - 0947-6539 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 10 DP - 2011 Mar 1 TI - Stereoelectronic requirements for optimal hydrogen-bond-catalyzed enolization. PG - 2859-66 LID - 10.1002/chem.201002943 [doi] AB - Protein crystallographic analysis of the active sites of enolizing enzymes and structural analysis of hydrogen-bonded carbonyl compounds in small molecule crystal structures, complemented by quantum chemical calculations on related model enolization reactions, suggest a new stereoelectronic model that accounts for the observed out-of-plane orientation of hydrogen-bond donors (HBDs) in the oxyanion holes of enolizing enzymes. The computational results reveal that the lone-pair directionality of HBDs characteristic for hydrogen-bonded carbonyls is reduced upon enolization, and the enolate displays almost no directional preference for hydrogen bonding. Positioning the HBDs perpendicular to the carbonyl plane induces strain in the catalyst-substrate complex, which is released upon enolization, resulting in more favorable kinetics and thermodynamics than the in-plane arrangement of HBDs. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. FAU - Papai, Imre AU - Papai I AD - Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pusztaszeri ut 59-67, H-1025 Budapest, Hungary. papai@chemres.hu FAU - Hamza, Andrea AU - Hamza A FAU - Pihko, Petri M AU - Pihko PM FAU - Wierenga, Rik K AU - Wierenga RK LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110209 PL - Germany TA - Chemistry JT - Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) JID - 9513783 RN - 0 (Ketones) RN - EC 5.3.3.- (Carbon-Carbon Double Bond Isomerases) SB - IM MH - Algorithms MH - Carbon-Carbon Double Bond Isomerases/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Catalysis MH - Humans MH - Hydrogen Bonding MH - Ketones/*chemistry MH - Mitochondria/enzymology MH - *Models, Molecular MH - Stereoisomerism MH - Thermodynamics EDAT- 2011/02/11 06:00 MHDA- 2011/04/14 06:00 CRDT- 2011/02/11 06:00 PHST- 2010/10/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/02/11 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/02/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/04/14 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/chem.201002943 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Chemistry. 2011 Mar 1;17(10):2859-66. doi: 10.1002/chem.201002943. Epub 2011 Feb 9.