6695water structure around the 0-group (Scheme 11), which leads to an increase in the activation entropy (A,Seb'(HA-) < a f , b * (A2-)).The inflection observed in Arrhenius plot (Figure 3) would be explainable in two ways. One is due to the conformational change of the reactants in lower temperature range. The other is due to the change of rate-determining step in the reaction in lower temperature range. The "guest-free" water complex of a-CDx as observed in the crystalline stateh will also be present in aqueous sol~tion.'~ In this complex, the-cavity of a-CDx is not "round" owing to the distortion of one of its six glucose units and causes high-energy, "tense" conformation.2b In aqueous solution, however, the dynamic structural interconversion such as a-CDx.2H20-(tense) + a-CDx.2H20(relaxed) would exist.2b This conformational change was confirmed only in a-CDx system by ultrasonic relaxation technique at 25 O C . % If the "tense" conformation is more stable at lower temperature, the binding would be sterically more hindered. Presumably, a conformational change also occurs when the binding with the "tense"-structured a-CDx occurs. Thus, one might expect that the AHf' and A S P ' at lower temperatures are larger than those at higher temperatures (Scheme 111). It is reasonable to guess that the inflection is observed only in the binding process and at about 15 OC irrespective of the kind of the guest molecule, whereas in the dissociation process no inflection is observed.The sharp kinetic anomalies observed in Arrhenius plots for the binding with a-CDx of the guest molecule would be explainable in another way. The second possibility is that the inflection is due to a change in rate-determining step in the binding process with a-CDx. These phenomena have been observed in many enzymatic reactions.21 The third possibility is the change in local order of the hydration structures in the vicinity of the host and the guest molecules. At the present stage of kinetic studies, it is still indefinite whether the sharp anomalies observed in Arrhenius plot are due to the conformational change of a-CDx or to the change of the rate-determining step in the reaction mechanism in the lower temperature range. However, as we shall describe in a future communication, the kinetic studies using the chemically modified a-CDx and some a-naphthylazo derivatives as guest molecule would enable us to advance our knowledge about the temperature dependence of the rate constants, kf and kb, of the inclusion reactions with a-CDx. Registry NO. 1, 98928-28-0; 2, 110773-10-9; 3, 98928-32-6; 4, 98928-34-8; 5, 98928-36-0. (21) Kaplan, H.; Laidler, K. J. Can. J. Chem. 1967, 45, 547. Adams, P. A,; Swart, E. R. Biochem. J. 1977, 161, 83. A sharp kinetic anomaly in Arrhenius plots is observed for the binding and acylation stage of the achymotrypsin-catalyzed hydrolysis of nonspecific p-nitrophenol esters, but not for the deacylation stage.The reactions of trimethyl phosphate, triethyl phosphate, and tributyl phosphate with sodium in liquid ammonia were fo...