Hydroperoxides detection

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TBHJmax is the maximum concentration of f-butyl hydroperoxide detected. [H2O2 ] is the concentration of hydrogen peroxide at the same time. 

The avermectins also possess a number of aUyflc positions that are susceptible to oxidative modification. In particular the 8a-methylene group, which is both aUyflc and alpha to an ether oxygen, is susceptible to radical oxidation. The primary product is the 8a-hydroperoxide, which has been isolated occasionally as an impurity of an avermectin B reaction (such as the catalytic hydrogenation of avermectin B with Wilkinson s rhodium chloride-triphenylphosphine catalyst to obtain ivermectin). An 8a-hydroxy derivative can also be detected occasionally as a metaboUte (42) or as an impurity arising presumably by air oxidation. An 8a-oxo-derivative can be obtained by oxidizing 5-0-protected avermectins with pyridinium dichromate (43). This also can arise by treating the 8a-hydroperoxide with base. 

As far as oxidation of the polymer with oxygen of the air is concerned, the /3-hydrogen atom in the neighborhood of the C=C double bond is the most likely one to be attacked by oxygen with the formation of hydroperoxide which undergoes further decomposition [19]. OH and CO groups have been detected spectroscopically in the polymer [67,83]. 

Many impurities are present in commercial caprolactam which pass into the liquid wastes from PCA manufacture from which caprolactam monomer may be recovered. Also, the products of die thermal degradation of PCA, dyes, lubricants, and other PCA fillers may be contained in the regenerated CL. Identification of die contaminants by IR spectroscopy has led to the detection of lower carboxylic acids, secondary amines, ketones, and esters. Aldehydes and hydroperoxides have been identified by polarography and thin-layer chromatography. 

A number of methods are available for following the oxidative behaviour of food samples. The consumption of oxygen and the ESR detection of radicals, either directly or indirectly by spin trapping, can be used to follow the initial steps during oxidation (Andersen and Skibsted, 2002). The formation of primary oxidation products, such as hydroperoxides and conjugated dienes, and secondary oxidation products (carbohydrides, carbonyl compounds and acids) in the case of lipid oxidation, can be quantified by several standard chemical and physical analytical methods (Armstrong, 1998 Horwitz, 2000). 

Detection of cholesteryl linoleate hydroperoxides and phosphatidylcholine hydroperoxides 63... 

Organic peroxides such as cumene hydroperoxide and t-butyl hydroperoxide have extensively been used as experimental agents. They provoke lipid peroxidation in hepatocytes, probably by the generation of alkoxyl and peroxyl radical intermediates after reaction with cytochrome P450. Other cytotoxic mechanisms are probably involved including protein thiol and non-protein thiol oxidation and deranged calcium homeostasis (Jewell et al., 1986). In fact, the addition of cumene hydroperoxide to isolated bUe duct cells, devoid of cytochrome P450 activity, still results in cell death but lipid peroxidation is not detectable (Parola et al., 1990). 

The water (moisture) content can rapidly and accurately be determined in polymers such as PBT, PA6, PA4.6 and PC via coulometric titration, with detection limits of some 20 ppm. Water produced during heating of PET was determined by Karl Fischer titration [536]. The method can be used for determining very small quantities of water (10p,g-15mg). Certified water standards are available. Karl Fischer titrations are not universal. The method is not applicable in the presence of H2S, mercaptans, sulfides or appreciable amounts of hydroperoxides, and to any compound or mixture which partially reacts under the conditions of the test, to produce water [31]. Compounds that consume or release iodine under the analysis conditions interfere with the determination. 

In fact the extremely rapid reaction of NOH with hydroperoxides combined with the ready oxidation of hydroxylamines to nitroxides during storage even in the solid state makes unlikely the detection of >N0H from hindered amines in photo-oxidizing polymer. 

The formation and role of hydroperoxide groups, particularly in the early stages of polymer oxidation is well discussed in the introduction to the next chapter and also features in many of the references cited in this chapter. Their detection and quantification is therefore important. Although this can be done directly or implicitly through many of the instrumentation techniques discussed in this chapter, there are several tests that have been developed, some of which are still widely used, that are based more on chemical methods, titration or staining. The majority have been applied to polyolefins, especially polyethylene. 

POOH + 31 + 2H+ I3 + H20 + POH The method does not usually detect dialkylperoxides, POOP [16]. In applying the method, a known weight of sample will be refluxed in a mixture of isopropanol and acetic acid in the presence of sodium iodide. The reaction time is usually about 30 min. A detection limit of ca. 30 ppm of hydroperoxide has been reported [1]. 

Hydroperoxides are formed in each polymer containing aliphatic hydrocarbon chains on standing by various initiators, including light, heat, etc. This may be well detected by the non-isothermal chemiluminescence method in nitrogen. The analytical possibilities of this approach have not been fully utilized until recently [17],... 

A potentially powerful probe for sorting out the contribution of hydroperoxide-dependent and mixed-function oxidase-dependent polycyclic hydrocarbon oxidation is stereochemistry. Figure 9 summarizes the stereochemical differences in epoxidation of ( )-BP-7,8-dihydrodiol by hydroperoxide-dependent and mixed-function oxidase-dependent pathways (31,55,56). The (-)-enantiomer of BP-7,8-dihydrodiol is converted primarily to the (+)-anti-diol epoxide by both pathways whereas the (+)-enantiomer of BP-7,8-dihydrodiol is converted primarily to the (-)-anti-diol epoxide by hydroperoxide-dependent oxidation and to the (+)-syn-diol epoxide by mixed-function oxidases. The stereochemical course of oxidation by cytochrome P-450 isoenzymes was first elucidated for the methycholanthrene-inducible form but we have detected the same stereochemical profile using rat liver microsomes from control, phenobarbital-, or methyl-cholanthrene-induced animals (32). The only difference between the microsomal preparations is the rate of oxidation. 

Dimethylbenzofurazan 255 was transformed by 02 produced by irradiation of C60 into 4,7-dimethylbenzofur-azan 4,7-endoperoxide 256 in CDCI3 or CD2CI2 at 0°C in excellent yields. The endoperoxide 256 decomposed back to compound 255 at room temperature. When tetramethylethylene (TME) was added to the decomposing endoperoxide 256 at 37 °C, the hydroperoxide from reaction of TME with 02 was detected (Scheme 67) <2001TL987>. 

Nourooz-Zadeh J. 1999. Ferrous ion oxidation in presence of xylenol orange for detection of lipid hydroperoxides in plasma. Methods Enzymol 300 58-62. 

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