Formation dimethyl sulfoxide reduction

Bordwell and coworkers63 87 have studied the reaction of 9-fluorenyl carbanions (9-RFP) with a series of electron acceptors and in particular a-halosulfones and sulfoxides, in dimethyl sulfoxide solution. The overall reaction is characterized by the formation of the 9,9 -bis-fluorenyl derivative and the reduction of the halogenated acceptor. A family of 9-substituted fluorenyl carbanions covering a basicity range of 9.1 pKa units was used and... 

In addition, the reduction of a-11 and (3-11 was s tudied in dimethyl sulfoxide as solvent, in the presence of pyridiniump-toluensulfonate. This medium makes mutarota-tion slower than the redox process.73 The two anomeric forms could reduce Cr(VI) and Cr(V) by formation of a Cr(VI) and Cr(V) ester intermediate. The equilibrium constant for this step and the rate of the redox step were different for each anomer for a-11, the equilibrium constant for ester formation is higher than for (3-11, but the redox process within this complex is faster for the latter anomer. These differences can be explained by the better chelating capacity of the 1,2-cri-diol moiety of a-11. Room-temperature CW-EPR spectra of these mixtures revealed for the a anomer several five-coordinated Cr(V)-bischelates (giso= 1.9820 [crilso 15.9xl(r4cm 1 (=47.7MHz)],... 

Killday etal. (1988) also provided evidence for internal autoreduction of ferric nitrosyl heme complexes, as previously proposed by Giddings (1977). Heating of chlorohemin( iron-III) dimethyl ester in dimethyl sulfoxide solution with imidazole and NO produced a product with an infrared spectra identical to that of nitrosyl iron(ll) protoporphyrin dimethyl ester prepared by dithionite reduction. Both spectra clearly showed the characteristic nitrosyl stretch at 1663 and 1665 cm. They thus proposed a mechanism for formation of cured meat pigment which includes internal autoreduction of NOMMb via globin imidazole residues. A second mole of nitrite is proposed to bind to the heat-denatured protein, possibly at a charged histidine residue generated in the previous autoreduction step. 

Another interesting reaction of benzoxazines 114 (115) is the reductive opening of the oxazine ring with simultaneous dehydrogenation of the pyrazoline moiety [170]. This process is carried out in a KOH suspension of a mixture of dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethylformamide. For instance, this treatment involving 2,5-diary l-l,10b-dihydro-177-pyrazolo[l,5-c]benzo[e]-l,3-oxazines 116 leads to the formation of pyrazoles 117 (Scheme 2.32). Similar disproportionation reactions have also been described for some bezopiranes, for example, pyrazole derivative 118 [91, 170]. 

Dimethyl sulfoxide reductases (DMSOR) of bacteria and fungi that catalyze the reduction of DMSO to dimethyl sulfide (DMS). These enzymes play a significant role in the global sulfur cycle, not least because DMS is volatile and is the precursor of the methylsulfonate aerosols that nucleate cloud formation (29). Furthermore, the distinctive smell of DMS acts as a guide to certain seabirds who use it to locate productive regions of the ocean (30). 

Halohydrin formation with subsequent reductive dehalogcnation represents an interesting variation on the theme. For example, when the enone rac-1 was treated with A -bromosuccin-imide in aqueous dimethyl sulfoxide, the bromohydrin roc-2 was formed, predominantly as one diastereomer (the relative configuration at C-3 was not established)23. Reduction with tri-butyltin hydride gave the diastereomeric products exo-3 and endo-3 in 27% and 63% yield, respectively. Here, the product distribution can be explained by the preferred attack of the hydride reagent on the exo-face of the intermediate bicyclic carbon radical, i.e., by kinetic control. Thus, the predominant endo-orientation of the 2-(2-hydroxypropyl) substituent at C-3 was achieved, in contrast to what may be expected from a reversible, i.e., thermodynamically controlled, hydration of the enone rac-1. 

Thietane 1-oxides may be reduced to thietanes by iodide ion in acidic mediaby hydrogen sulfide, and by zinc-hydrochloric acid. Thietane 1-oxide is reduced by iodide about four times more rapidly than dimethyl sulfoxide the rate of reduction as a function of ring-size decreases as follows 5 > 4 > 6. The mechanism of reduction by iodide involves slow formation of an iodosulfonium salt 120. The thietane product is unstable in the aeidic medium and was not identified. 

A formal total synthesis of ( )-morphine has been achieved by adopting the above synthetic route (Scheme 18). The tetrahydropyridine 91, prepared from the reaction of A/ -methyl-4-piperidone with 2,3-dimethoxy-phenyllithium, followed by dehydration, was converted to the bicyclic en-amine 92 by treatment with the ylic dibromide. Kinetic protonation of 92 with perchloric acid gave the trans-fused immonium salt, which upon dissolution in methanol equilibrated to the thermodynamically prefered cis isomer 93. Treatment of 93 with diazomethane brought about the formation of the aziridinium salt 94, which was readily transformed into the a-amino aldehyde 95 by its oxidation with dimethyl sulfoxide. It is also worth noting that the Komblum oxidation of aziridinium salts leads to the construction of a-amino aldehydes efficiently. Lewis-acid-catalyzed cyclization of 95 afforded the morphinan carbinol 96 in 80% yield. Successive mesylation and reduction of the mesylate derived from 96 with LiBEtjH afforded morphinan (97) in excellent yield. In this instance, direct conversion of 93 to 97 by treatment with diazomethane gave approximately 1 % of the desired product. Lemieux-Johnson oxidation of 97 under acidic conditions furnished the ketone 98, which was previously transformed into ( )-morphine by Gates. In order to confirm the structure of 98, its conversion to the known... 

First, we sought to develop an effective assay that could enable rapid measurement of statin-induced toxicity and its suppression by small molecules [10]. Our previous work to generate a mitochondrial compendium in muscle cells provided us the preliminary data needed for this assay. We seeded C2C12 myoblasts in optical 384-well plates, and when the cells reached confluence, induced differentiation to myotubes by incubating with 2% horse serum for 4-6 days. Differentiation was confirmed visually by observing cell fusion and syncytia formation characteristic of myotubes. We then treated differentiated myotubes for 48 h with 10 pM simvastatin, and measured cellular ATP levels with a commercially available kit (CellTiter-Glo, Promega). As expected, we observed a twofold reduction in ATP levels compared to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) controls. 

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