Hydrogen Nicotinamide adenine

However, the saccharides (CH20) are not produced by the photoreaction but by a subsequent dark reaction of the photochemically generated hydrogenated nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (172) (NADP -H2). 

Coemymes effecting transfer of hydrogen. These include the pyridine nucleotides, nicotinamide-adenine dinucleolide and nicotinamide-adenine dinucleolide phosphate the flavin nucleotides such as flavin-adenine dinucleotide and lipoic acid. 

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In oiological systems, the most frequent mechanism of oxidation is the remov of hydrogen, and conversely, the addition of hydrogen is the common method of reduc tion. Nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) are two coenzymes that assist in oxidation and reduction. These cofactors can shuttle between biochemical reac tions so that one drives another, or their oxidation can be coupled to the formation of ATP. However, stepwise release or consumption of energy requires driving forces and losses at each step such that overall efficiency suffers. 

Rhodium and ruthenium complexes have also been studied as effective catalysts. Rh(diphos)2Cl [diphos = l,2-bis(diphenyl-phosphino)ethane] catalyzed the electroreduction of C02 in acetonitrile solution.146 Formate was produced at current efficiencies of ca. 20-40% in dry acetonitrile at ca. -1.5 V (versus Ag wire). It was suggested that acetonitrile itself was the source of the hydrogen atom and that formation of the hydride HRh(diphos)2 as an active intermediate was involved. Rh(bpy)3Cl3, which had been used as a catalyst for the two-electron reduction of NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) to NADH by Wienkamp and Steckhan,147 has also acted as a catalyst for C02 reduction in aqueous solutions (0.1 M TEAP) at -1.1 V versus SCE using Hg, Pb, In, graphite, and n-Ti02 electrodes.148 Formate was the main... 

It is possible to use isolated, partially purified enzymes (dehydrogenases) for the reduction of ketones to optically active secondary alcohols. However, a different set of complications arises. The new C H bond is formed by delivery of the hydrogen atom from an enzyme cofactor, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (phosphate) NAD(P) in its reduced form. The cofactor is too expensive to be used in a stoichiometric quantity and must be recycled in situ. Recycling methods are relatively simple, using a sacrificial alcohol, or a second enzyme (formate dehydrogenase is popular) but the real and apparent complexity of the ensuing process (Scheme 8)[331 provides too much of a disincentive to investigation by non-experts. 

Nicotinic acid derivatives occur in biologic materials as the free acid, as nicotinamide, and in two coenzymatic forms nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP). These coenzymes act in series with flavoprotein enzymes and, like them, are hydrogen acceptors or, when reduced, donors. Several plants and bacteria use a metabolic pathway for the formation of nicotinic acid that is different from the tryptophan pathway used by animals and man (B39). 

The mechanism of this oxidation is shown in Figure 4.29. The preferred cofactor for this reaction is nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). It can be seen from this mechanism that oxidation of tertiary alcohols does not occur because there is no hydrogen on the OH-substituted carbon. 

Most coenzymes have aromatic heterocycles as major constituents. While enzymes possess purely protein structures, coenzymes incorporate non-amino acid moieties, most of them aromatic nitrogen het-erocycles. Coenzymes are essential for the redox biochemical transformations, e.g., nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD, 13) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD, 14) (Scheme 5). Both are hydrogen transporters through their tautomeric forms that allow hydrogen uptake at the termini of the quinon-oid chain. Thiamine pyrophosphate (15) is a coenzyme that assists the decarboxylation of pyruvic acid, a very important biologic reaction (Scheme 6). 

Isotope effects have been used to determine whether the hydride transfer from the enzyme cofactor nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide (NADH) (reaction (43)) takes place as a hydride ion transfer in a single kinetic step or in a multistep reaction via an uncoupled electron and hydrogen transfer. 

Dugan, R. E., Porter, J. W. Stereospecificity of the transfer of hydrogen from reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, in each of the two reductive steps catalyzed by /S-hydroxy-jS-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase. J. Biol. Chem. 246, 5361—5364 (1971). 

In the second stage, the building blocks are degraded by various pathways in tissues to a common metabolic intermediate, acetyl CoA. Most of the energy contained in metabolic fuels is conserved in the chemical bonds (electrons) of acetyl CoA. A smaller portion is conserved in reducing nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) to NADH or flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) to FADH. Reduction indicates the addition of electrons that may be free, part of a hydrogen atom (H), or a hydride ion (H ). 

NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) Tends to be utilized as hydrogen acceptor... 

NADPH (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate), 610, 643, 659 Nation membrane, hydrogen peroxide... 

Nicotinamide (8.45) and nicotinic acid (8.46, niacin)—which have also been referred to as vitamin B3 or B5—are simple pyridine-3-carboxylic acid derivatives occurring in liver, yeast, and meat. In the form of nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide (NAD" ) or its phosphorylated form (NADP+), nicotinamide is the most important electron carrier in intermediary metabolism. Unlike FAD, it adds a hydride ion (i.e., one pair of electrons and one hydrogen) only. 

It is converted to coenzymes, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP). These coenzymes are bound to hydrogenases, function as oxidants by accepting hydrogen and electrons from substrates and become reduced. 

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