Modeling the Alkaline Hydrolysis of Diaryl Sulfate Diesters: A Mechanistic Study.

ABSTRACT: Phosphate and sulfate esters have important roles in regulating cellular processes. However, while there has been substantial experimental and computational investigation of the mechanisms and the transition states involved in phosphate ester hydrolysis, there is far less work on sulfate ester hydrolysis. Here, we report a detailed computational study of the alkaline hydrolysis of diaryl sulfate diesters, using different DFT functionals as well as mixed implicit/explicit solvation with varying numbers of explicit water molecules. We consider the impact of the computational model on computed linear free-energy relationships (LFER) and the nature of the transition states (TS) involved. We obtain good qualitative agreement with experimental LFER data when using a pure implicit solvent model a

SUBMITTER: Szeler K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304899 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature