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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Sep 18;130(41):13673–13682. doi: 10.1021/ja803612z

Table 1.

Rate constants for PPlγ catalyzed hydrolysis of aryl phosphates and aryl methylphosphonates (25 °C, pH 8.0, 100 mM buffer (2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanedio), 1 mM MnCl2, I = 0.45 M (NaCl)), and for the reaction of hydroxide with aryl methylphosphonates (25 °C, I=0.1M (NaCl)).

Aryl group Phenol pKa(a) PP1γ-catalyzed phosphonate hydrolysis (kcat/KM, M-1 s-1) PP1γ-catalyzed phosphonate hydrolysis (kcat/KM, M-1 s-1) kHO- catalyzed phosphonate hydrolysis (M-1 s-1)
4-nitro-3-fluoro 6.10 - 60±2 6.2±0.2×10-5
4-nitro 7.01 820±20 40±2 1.18±0.01×10-5
3-nitro-4-chloro 7.54 640±20 - -
3-nitro 8.14 450±20 9.5±0.9 2.9±0.2×10-6(b)
3,4-dichloro 8.32 520±50 - -
3-chloro 8.82 370±10 12.6±0.7 6.2±0.2×10-7(b)
3-fluoro 9.00 200±20 - -
4-chloro 9.30 260±30 9.8±0.2 3.6±0.4×10-7(b)
4-fluoro 9.78 104±17 -
Phenol 9.97 94±12 3±1 1.2±0.2×10-7(b)
4-methyl 10.15 100±3 3.2±0.2
(a)

pKas were measured by spectrophotometric titration at 25 °C

(b)

extrapolated from measurements in 0.1 M NaOH at higher temperatures.