Prephenic acid is unstable; as a 1,4-cyclohexadiene, it is easily aromatized, for example, under the influence of acids or bases. This instability makes both isolation and synthesis difficult. Prephenic acid was first isolated from mutants of Escherichia coli that were unable to convert prephenic acid to phenylpyruvic acid. During this process, the barium salt was obtained.[2]
Stereochemistry
Prephenic acid is an example of achiral (optically inactive) molecule which has two pseudoasymmetric atoms (i.e.stereogenic but not chirotopic centers), the C1 and the C4 cyclohexadiene ring atoms. It has been shown[9] that of the two possible diastereoisomers, the natural prephenic acid is one that has both substituents at higher priority (according to CIP rules) on the two pseudoasymmetric carbons, i.e. the carboxyl and the hydroxyl groups, in the cis configuration, or (1s,4s) according to the new IUPAC stereochemistry rules (2013).[10]
The other stereoisomer, i.e. trans or, better, (1r,4r), is called epiprephenic.
12Richard G.H. Cotton, Frank Gibson (April 1965), "The biosynthesis of phenylalanine and tyrosine; enzymes converting chorismic acid into prephenic acid and their relationships to prephenate dehydratase and prephenate dehydrogenase", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, vol.100, no.1, pp.76–88, doi:10.1016/0304-4165(65)90429-0, PMID14323651
12H. Plieninger (July 1962), "Prephenic Acid: Properties and the Present Status of its Synthesis", Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, vol.1, no.7, pp.367–372, doi:10.1002/anie.196203671
↑Peter Kast, Yadu B. Tewari, Olaf Wiest, Donald Hilvert, Kendall N. Houk, and Robert N. Goldberg (1997). "Thermodynamics of the Conversion of Chorismate to Prephenate: Experimental Results and Theoretical Predictions". J. Phys. Chem. B. 101 (50): 10976–10982. doi:10.1021/jp972501l.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
↑Cotton RG, Gibson F (1965). "The biosynthesis of phenylalanine and tyrosine; enzymes converting chorismic acid into prephenic acid and their relationships to prephenate dehydratase and prephenate dehydrogenase". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 100: 76–88. doi:10.1016/0304-4165(65)90429-0. PMID14323651.
↑Gamborg OL, Keeley FW (1966). "Aromatic metabolism in plants. I. A study of the prephenate dehydrogenase from bean plants". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 115 (1): 65–72. doi:10.1016/0304-4165(66)90049-3. PMID4379953.
↑Danishefsky, Samuel; Hirama, Masahiro; Fritsch, Nancy; Clardy, Jon (1979-11-01). "Synthesis of disodium prephenate and disodium epiprephenate. Stereochemistry of prephenic acid and an observation on the base-catalyzed rearrangement of prephenic acid to p-hydroxyphenyllactic acid". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 101 (23): 7013–7018. Bibcode:1979JAChS.101.7013D. doi:10.1021/ja00517a039. ISSN0002-7863.
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