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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
49
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-12-7
pubmed:abstractText
Metaphosphate is known to be highly reactive to water, whereas thiometaphosphate is relatively stable in aqueous solution. The difference in their reactivity has important mechanistic implications in interpreting the "thio effect" in phosphoryl transfer reactions. In this work, density functional theory is used to investigate the reactivity of both metaphosphate and its thio-substitute in their complexes with one, two, and three waters, and in aqueous solution. Barrier heights for converting metaphosphate to orthophosphate have been determined by geometry optimization. The results confirm that metaphosphate is consistently more reactive than thiometaphosphate and the activation free energy for both species decreases with the number of water molecules. The relative stability of thiometaphosphate is attributed to its less positively charged phosphorus atom.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1089-5639
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
109
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
11295-303
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-3-27
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Reactivity of metaphosphate and thiometaphosphate in water: a DFT study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry and Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article