Extreme Basicity of Biguanide Drugs in Aqueous Solutions: Ion Transfer Voltammetry and DFT Calculations

作者：Langmaier Jan; Pizl Martin; Samec Zdenek^*; Zalis Stanislav^*

来源：Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2016, 120(37): 7344-7350.

DOI：10.1021/acs.jpca.6b04786

Ion transfer voltammetry is used to estimate the acid dissociation constants K-a1 and K-a2 of the mono- and diprotonated forms of the biguanide drugs metformin (MF), phenformin (PF), and 1-phenylbiguanide (PB) in an aqueous solution. Measurements gave the pK(a1), values for MFH+, PFH+, and PBH+ characterizing the basicity of MF, PF, and PB, which are significantly higher than those reported in the literature. As a result, the monoprotonated forms of these biguanides should prevail in a considerably broader range of pH 1-15 (MFH+, PFH+) and 2-13 (PBH+). DFT calculations with solvent correction were performed for possible tautomeric forms of neutral, monoprotonated, and diprotonated species. Extreme basicity of all drugs is confirmed by DFT calculations of plc, for the most stable tautomers of the neutral and protonated forms with explicit water molecules in the first solvation sphere included.

• 出版日期2016-9-22