Determination of acidity constants, ionic mobilities, and hydrodynamic radii of carborane-based inhibitors of carbonic anhydrases by capillary electrophoresis

0539592 - ÚOCHB 2022 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Šolínová, Veronika - Brynda, Jiří - Šícha, Václav - Holub, Josef - Grüner, Bohumír - Kašička, Václav
Determination of acidity constants, ionic mobilities, and hydrodynamic radii of carborane-based inhibitors of carbonic anhydrases by capillary electrophoresis.
Electrophoresis. Roč. 42, 7/8 (2021), s. 910-919. ISSN 0173-0835. E-ISSN 1522-2683
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-03899S
Institutional support: RVO:61388963 ; RVO:68378050 ; RVO:61388980
Keywords : acid dissociation constant * capillary electrophoresis * carboranes * limiting ionic mobilities * stokes hydrodynamic radii
OECD category: Analytical chemistry; Inorganic and nuclear chemistry (UACH-T)
Impact factor: 3.595, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.202000298

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) has been applied for determination of the thermodynamic acidity constants (pKa) of the sulfamidoalkyl and sulfonamidoalkyl groups, the actual and limiting ionic mobilities and hydrodynamic radii of important compounds, eight carborane‐based inhibitors of carbonic anhydrases, which are potential new anticancer drugs. Two types of carboranes were investigated, (i) icosahedral cobalt bis(dicarbollide)(1‐) ion with sulfamidoalkyl moieties, and (ii) 7,8‐nido‐dicarbaundecaborate with sulfonamidoalkyl side chains. First, the mixed acidity constants, pKamix, of the sulfamidoalkyl and sulfonamidoalkyl groups of the above carboranes and their actual ionic mobilities were determined by nonlinear regression analysis of the pH dependences of their effective electrophoretic mobility measured by capillary electrophoresis in the pH range 8.00−12.25, at constant ionic strength (25 mM), and constant temperature (25°C). Second, the pKamix were recalculated to the thermodynamic pKas using the Debye–Hückel theory. The sulfamidoalkyl and sulfonamidoalkyl groups were found to be very weakly acidic with the pKas in the range 10.78−11.45 depending on the type of carborane cluster and on the position and length of the alkyl chain on the carborane scaffold. These pKas were in a good agreement with the pKas (10.67−11.27) obtained by new program AnglerFish (freeware at https://echmet.natur.cuni.cz), which provides thermodynamic pKas and limiting ionic mobilities directly from the raw CE data. The absolute values of the limiting ionic mobilities of univalent and divalent carborane anions were in the range 18.3−27.8 TU (Tiselius unit, 1 × 10−9 m2/Vs), and 36.4−45.9 TU, respectively. The Stokes hydrodynamic radii of univalent and divalent carborane anions varied in the range 0.34−0.52 and 0.42−0.52 nm, respectively.
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