Measurement methods nitric oxide

M. Mas, A. Escrig and J.L. Gonzalez-Mora, In vivo electrochemical measurement of nitric oxide in corpus cavernosum penis. J. Neurosci. Methods 119, 143-150 (2002). 

As appears from the formula one can find D from an experiment on an explosion at a very high temperature by measuring the nitric oxide yield in the products and the cooling rate without a knowledge of the temperature reached during the explosion. Due to the complicated temperature distribution in the reaction products (Mache effect, cf. 5) this method of computing D and the absolute value of the rate coefficient is extremely useful and has been used by us (see 10). 

J.S. Beckman and K.A. Congert, Direct measurement of dilute nitric oxide in solution with an ozone chemiluminescent detector. Methods 7, 35-38 (1995). 

The results confirm that the novel metal nitrate conversion method using nitric oxide in place of air advocated by Sietsma et al. in patent applications WO 2008029177 and WO 2007071899 leads to, after activation in H2, catalysts with smaller cobalt crystallites, as measured by EXAFS and hydrogen chemisorption/ pulse reoxidation. In spite of the lower extent of cobalt reduction for H2-activated nitric oxide calcined catalysts, which was recorded by TPR, XANES, EXAFS,... 

Peroxynitrite (ONOO-) is a cytotoxic reactive species that is formed by the reaction of nitric oxide and superoxide. Methods for measuring the scavenging capacity of peroxynitrite usually depend on either the inhibition of tyrosine nitration or the inhibition of dihydrorhodamine 123 (DHR) oxidation to rhodamine 123 (MacDonalds-Wicks and... 

Sigman et al. [134] have described a bacterial method for measuring the isotopic composition of seawater nitrate at the natural-abundance level. The method is based on the analysis of nitrous oxide gas (N2O) produced quantitatively from nitrate by denitrifying bacteria. The classical denitrification pathway consists of the stepwise reduction of nitrate (NOp to nitrite (N02), nitric oxide (NO), nitrous oxide (N2O), and dinitrogen (N2) ... 

An improved HPLC-photohydrolysis-colorimetry method was validated for twenty-eight reference nitrosamines. These were separated by HPLC and photolytically cleaved by UV radiation. The resulting nitric oxide was oxidized and hydrolyzed to nitrite ions, which were derivatized into an azo dye with Griess reagent and measured spectrophoto-metrically. The method was applied to separate and detect hitherto unknown nonvolatile nitrosamines in biological fluids and food extracts591. 

London. On the second day, the late afternoon peak exceeded 0.1 ppm. It is apparent that some conversion of nitric oxide to nitrogen dioxide was responsible for the ozone buildups, but it is not as clear a chemical pattern for London as it is for cities in the western United States. The paper did not mention the method of ozone measurement however, qualitative descriptions of the weather patterns suggest that the days of high ozone were characterized by light winds and considerable sunlight. 

These iodometric calibration methods are based on the assumption that there is a stoichiometric reaction between ozone and the iodine in the various potassium iodide procedures. Three essentially independent methods have been used to test the accuracy of this assumption measuring the absorption of ultraviolet radiation at 254 nm by ozone in air, measuring the absorption of infrared radiation at 9,480 nm by ozone in air, and determining the ozone concentration in air by titration with nitric oxide. 

The reaction rate is extremely high, so that, even at concentrations smaller than parts per million, the reaction is virtually complete after a few seconds when there is an excess of nitric oxide present. Under these conditions, the amount of ozone added during the titration is equivalent to the amount of nitric oxide consumed and to the amount of nitrogen dioxide formed. The accuracy of this calibration method depends critically on the accurate measurements of the nitric oxide concentration and on the nitric oxide and ozone flow rates. 

The technol( for the routine measurement of the nitrogen oxides (nitrogen dioxide and nitric oxide) is fairly well advanced. The epa is on the verge of officially proposing that chemiluminescence produced by the reaction of nitric oxide with ozone be the reference method for nitrogen dioxide.This method is even more suitable for nitric oxide. Because no national air quality standard has been promulgated for nitric oxide, no reference method will be specified. However, its measurement in the atmosphere is crucial for establishing the relation of its emission to the formation of atmospheric ozone and other photochemical oxidants. 

The diurnal patterns of ozone, nitric oxide, and nitrogen dioxide concentrations observed during photochemical oxidant episodes in California have been confirmed by smog-chamber studies. There may be, however, a decrease in reliability with decreasing concentration of values less than 0.1 ppm that were measured by the colorimetric method. The magnitude of these uncertainties among the various monitoring networks in the United States has still to be assessed. 

In the measurement of nitrqgen dioxide with this technique, it is thermochemically converted to nitric oxide by reaction with molybdenum at about 200 C. The extent of possible interferences at various monitoring sites from nitrogen compounds other than amhionia, which does not interfere unless the temperature is considerably higher than 2(X) C, remains to be assessed. The instrumentation of this procedure is inherently more reliable than the original colorimetric analyzers. Unfortunately, the mutual equivalence in monitoring situations of data obtained by these two techniques has not yet been evaluated. This is particularly important for the data from California, where the colorimetric method has been used for more than 20 yr. 

In the process, the iron is reduced to the ferrous form. Ferric cytochrome c is reduced by nitric oxide through a nitrosyl intermediate to produce ferrous cytochrome c and nitrite (Orii and Shimada, 1978). The nitrosyl cytochrome c absorbs at 560 nm, which is slightly higher than the 550-nm peak observed for reduced cytochrome c. Nitric oxide may be an interference in the assay of superoxide from cultured cells by the cytochrome c method. When nitric oxide reacts with cytochrome c, there is an initial decrease in absorbance at 550 nm as the nitrosyl complex is formed followed by a rise in absorbance as the complex decomposes to nitrite and reduced cytochrome c. This is a potential artifact in studies measuring the release of superoxide from cultured endothelial cells or other cells that make nitric oxide. 

The method was checked by analysis according to Kjeldahl (reduction of the fixed nitrogen to ammonia) and by analysis of measured amounts of nitric oxide let into the cylinder from a pipette. 

Nitric acid and organic and inorganic nitrates, and in general all substances which contain free nitric acid or yield nitric acid when they are treated with concentrated sulfuric acid, are analyzed by means of the nitrometer. The method depends upon the measurement of the volume of the nitric oxide which is produced when concentrated sulfuric acid acts upon the sample in the presence of mercury. It is satisfactory also for the determination of nitro group nitrogen in certain nitroamines, in nitro-guanidine and in tetryl but not in methylnitramine. It is not satisfactory in the presence of mononitro aromatic compounds or of other substances which are nitrated readily by a solution of nitric acid in concentrated sulfuric acid. 

One method of determining the values of the exponents in a rate law is to carry out a series of experiments in which the initial rate of a reaction is measured as a function of different sets of initial concentrations. Consider, for example, the air oxidation of nitric oxide, one of the reactions that contributes to the formation of acid rain ... 

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