微液滴技术促进不混溶两相间酰胺键形成反应的质谱研究

Microdroplet-promoted Amide Bond Formation between Substances on the Interface of Two Immiscible Liquid Phases

  • 摘要: 不混溶两相中酰胺键的形成对不同亲疏水官能团间的共价偶联具有重要意义。本文采用同轴双液路喷雾装置,探索微液滴技术在促进不混溶两相间物质氨解反应形成酰胺键的优势。首先,以N-苄氧羰基-2-氨基乙酸对硝基苯酚酯(Ea)与溶菌酶蛋白氨解反应为模型,研究样品流速、鞘管压强和溶剂等因素对不混溶两相微液滴中氨解效率的影响。研究发现,样品流速和鞘管压强对反应效率起到关键作用,可能是由于高压气流对流速较低的初始液滴施加强大的剪切应力,促使初始液滴变小,进而提高两相间物质交换效率。当氨解反应分别采用几种疏水性有机溶剂(如甲苯、乙酸乙酯、己酮、二氯甲烷、正丁醇)时,微液滴中的相对转化率在80%~91%之间。当小分子是带有大疏水基团的活性酯类EaEbN-苄氧羰基-4-氨基乙酸对硝基苯酚酯)、EcN-苄氧羰基-6-氨基乙酸对硝基苯酚酯)、EdN-芴甲氧羰基-2-氨基乙酸对硝基苯酚酯)、EeN-芴甲氧羰基-4-氨基乙酸对硝基苯酚酯)和EfN-芴甲氧羰基-6-氨基乙酸对硝基苯酚酯)时,微液滴体系中的氨解相对转化率在65%~91%之间,而在本体溶液中的相对转化率小于11%。由此可见,微液滴中不混溶两相间的氨解反应具有较广的底物适用范围,该方法在不同亲疏水官能团的共价偶联方面展现出潜在的应用价值。

     

    Abstract: Effectively constructing amide bonds between substances on the interface of two immiscible solvents plays a key role in the covalent-conjugation of the two substances with totally different hydrophilicity. In this study, a coaxial dual-channel spraying device was used to explore the advantages of microdroplet techniques in promoting the aminolysis between substances at the interface of two immiscible solvents for amide bond formation. The effects of sample flow rate, sheath pressure, electric field strength and organic solvent on the coupling efficiency of amide bonds in two immiscible microdroplets were studied, using Z-glycine-4-nitrophenyl ester (Ea) dissolved in an organic solvent and lysozyme protein (P) dissolved in an aqueous buffer as model substrates. When the sheath pressure was 0.8 MPa, as the flow rate increased from 5 μL/min to 25 μL/min, and the conversion increased first and then decreased from 92% to 86%. This may be due to the fact that under the conditions of low flow rate (5 μL/min) and high pressure of sheath gas (0.8 MPa), solids tend to accumulate at the nozzle tip, affecting the flight of microdroplets and suppressing mass transfer between two immiscible phases. When the flow rate was too high, the initial droplet was too large, leading to a reducation in the liquid-liquid specific surface area and a decrease in relative conversion (R.C.). When the flow rate was 10 μL/min, pressure of the sheath increased ranging from 0.4 MPa to 0.8 MPa or the voltage changing from 0 kV to ±4 kV, and all R. C. were ≥85%. It was proposed that the high-pressure gas flow (≥0.4 MPa) plays a major role by exerting strong shear stress on the initial droplet, promoting the conversion of initial large droplets to smaller ones to increase the surface-to-volume ratio of the liquid-liquid interface and enhance the mass exchange efficiency between the two phases. When several hydrophobic organic solvents (such as toluene, ethyl acetate, hexanone, dichloromethane, n-butanol) were used in the two-phased aminolysis reaction, the conversion rates in the microdroplets system are 80%-91%, and the highest conversion rate is 91% in toluene. However, the ammonolysis reaction in the bulk solution shows obvious lower conversion rate (≤21%). Finally, when the activated esters were Ea, Eb (N-benzoxycarbonyl 4-amino-acetic acid p-nitrophenol ester), Ec (N-benzoxycarbonyl 6-amino-acetic acid p-nitrophenol ester), Ed (N-fluorenyl methoxycarbonyl 2-amino-acetic acid p-nitrophenol ester), Ee (N-fluorenyl methoxycarbonyl 4-amino-acetic acid p-nitrophenol ester), or Ef (N-fluorenyl methoxycarbonyl 6-amino-acetic acid p-nitrophenol ester) with large hydrophobic groups, the R.C. of the aminolysis reaction in the two immiscible droplet systems is 65%-91%, while corresponding R.C. in the bulk solution is less than 11%, which is much lower than that in the microdroplets systems, indicating that microdroplet technique has applicable to a wide range of substrates for promoting the amide bonds construction between substances at the interfaces of two liquid phases. This strategy opens an avenue of microdroplets technique in the covalent coupling of functional groups with different hydrophilicity.

     

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