Table 2.
Thiol reactivity of select compounds
| Compound # |
%GSH remaining at 10 s |
%GSH remaining at 30 min |
kGSH (min−1) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 89 | 49 (35) | 0.032 |
| 13 | 85 | 39 (26) | 0.025 |
| 18 | 80 | 27 (14) | 0.053 |
| 19 | 71 | 32 (22) | 0.036 |
| 14 | 57 | 39 | |
| 10 | 51 | 26 | |
| 15 | 47 | 20 | |
| 8 | 46 | 25 | |
| 24 | 45 | 0 | |
| 7 | 44 | 32 | |
| 12 | 35 | 5 | |
| 6 | 25 | 19 | |
| 3 | 24 | 6 | |
| 25 | 22 | 0 | |
| 5 | 21 | 8 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
1 hour GSH% values are indicated with (). 1 mM of each compound was incubated with 1 mM glutathione (GSH) and the amount of free GSH remaining was determined by DTNB. Only 4 compounds were unreactive enough to calculate a second order rate constant (kGSH) of Michael adduct formation.