Oxidation rate constants ascorbate

This experiment describes the use of FIA for determining the stoichiometry of the Fe +-o-phenanthroline complex using the method of continuous variations and the mole-ratio method. Directions are also provided for determining the stoichiometry of the oxidation of ascorbic acid by dichromate and for determining the rate constant for the reaction at different pH levels and different concentration ratios of the reactants. 

Glassy carbon electrodes polished with alumina and sonicated under clean conditions show activation for the ferrl-/ ferro-cyanlde couple and the oxidation of ascorbic acid. Heterogeneous rate constants for the ferrl-/ ferro-cyanlde couple are dependent on the quality of the water used to prepare the electrolyte solutions. For the highest purity solutions, the rate constants approach those measured on platinum. The linear scan voltammetrlc peak potential for ascorbic acid shifts 390 mV when electrodes are activated. 

As mentioned earlier, ascorbate and ubihydroquinone regenerate a-tocopherol contained in a LDL particle and by this may enhance its antioxidant activity. Stocker and his coworkers [123] suggest that this role of ubihydroquinone is especially important. However, it is questionable because ubihydroquinone content in LDL is very small and only 50% to 60% of LDL particles contain a molecule of ubihydroquinone. Moreover, there is another apparently much more effective co-antioxidant of a-tocopherol in LDL particles, namely, nitric oxide [125], It has been already mentioned that nitric oxide exhibits both antioxidant and prooxidant effects depending on the 02 /NO ratio [42]. It is important that NO concentrates up to 25-fold in lipid membranes and LDL compartments due to the high lipid partition coefficient, charge neutrality, and small molecular radius [126,127]. Because of this, the value of 02 /N0 ratio should be very small, and the antioxidant effect of NO must exceed the prooxidant effect of peroxynitrite. As the rate constants for the recombination reaction of NO with peroxyl radicals are close to diffusion limit (about 109 1 mol 1 s 1 [125]), NO will inhibit both Reactions (7) and (8) and by that spare a-tocopherol in LDL oxidation. 

Bors et al. [175] determined the rate constants and equilibrium constants for the reactions of flavonoids with ascorbate (Reaction (18)) by a pulse-radiolysis method and on their basis calculated the one-electron oxidation potentials of flavonoids (Table 29.9). 

Rate Constants (I mol-1 s-1) and Equilibrium Constants for the Reactions of Flavonoids with Ascorbate and One-Electron Oxidation Potentials (mV) of Flavonoids... 

The oxidative behaviour of glycolaldehyde towards hexacyanoferrate(III) in alkaline media has been investigated and a mechanism proposed, which involves an intermediate alkoxide ion. Reactions of tetranitromethane with the luminol and luminol-peroxide radical anions have been shown to contribute substantially to the tetranitromethane reduction in luminol oxidation with hexacyanoferrate(III) in aerated aqueous alkali solutions. The retarding effect of crown ethers on the oxidation of triethylamine by hexacyanoferrate(III) ion has been noted. The influence of ionic strength on the rate constant of oxidation of ascorbic acid by hexacyanofer-rate(III) in acidic media has been investigated. The oxidations of CH2=CHX (where X = CN, CONH2, and C02 ) by alkaline hexacyanoferrate(III) to diols have been studied. ... 

The overall reaction rate and the rate constant of the electron-transfer step are summarized in Table 17 for the polymer-Cu-catalyzed oxidation of substrates such as 2,6-dimethylphenol (XOH) and ascorbic acid15 . The ks values for polymer-Cu-catalyzed oxidation are larger than those for monomeric-Cu-catalyzed oxidation. Particularly in the oxidative polymerization of XOH, it is obvious that the electron-transfer step is accelerated by polymer ligands, and the large value of ke is in agreement with the higher rate of polymer-Cu-catalyzed polymerization. Therefore, the... 

When dehydration occurs as a consecutive reaction, its effect on polarographic curves can be observed only, if the electrode process is reversible. In such cases, the consecutive reaction affects neither the wave-height nor the wave-shape, but causes a shift in the half-wave potentials. Such systems, apart from the oxidation of -aminophenol mentioned above, probably play a role in the oxidation of enediols, e.g. of ascorbic acid. It is assumed that the oxidation of ascorbic acid gives in a reversible step an unstable electroactive product, which is then transformed to electroinactive dehydroascorbic acid in a fast chemical reaction. Theoretical treatment predicted a dependence of the half-wave potential on drop-time, and this was confirmed, but the rate constant of the deactivation reaction cannot be determined from the shift of the half-wave potential, because the value of the true standard potential (at t — 0) is not accessible to measurement. 

Neta P, Eluie RE, Mosseri S, Shastri LV, Mittal JP, Maruthamuthu P, Steenken S (1989) Rate constants for reduction of substituted methylperoxyl radicals by ascorbate ions and N,N,N, Al -tetrameth-yl-p-phenylenediamine. J Phys Chem 93 4099-4104 Netto LES, Stadtman ER (1996) The iron-catalyzed oxidation of dithiothreitol is a biphasic process hyudrogen peroxide is involved in the initiation of a free-radical chain of reactions. Arch Biochem Biophys 333 233-242... 

Oxidation with ozone, under physiological conditions, follows the rate order uric acid ascorbic acid > glutathione. The amounts of ozone absorbed and antioxidant consumed have been simulated with a mathematical model and reaction rate constants of the oxidations have been evaluated.194 Various facets of transition metal-catalysed oxidation of benzylic compounds with ozone have been reported. The correlation of the effect of substituents with Hammett constants and steric factors has been discussed. The reaction seemed to proceed via a radical mechanism.195... 

Rate constants for the reactions of S0o with a wide variety of organic compounds are summarized in Table 2. The sulfite radical was found to oxidize ascorbate, trolox (a water soluble tocopherol derivative), methoxyphenol, hydroquinone and other phenolic compounds, sulfonated hydroquinones, phenylenediamines, and phenothiazines with rate constants ranging to 1 CrM 1 s. ... 

Superoxide radicals are another factor in oxidative damage. They can be determined with nitrobluetetrazolium (NBT), which then forms the colourless formazan. When melanoidins scavenge the superoxide radicals, the colour of the NBT persists.490,491 The activity of a glucose-glycine melanoidin on superoxide radicals is equivalent to the effect of 16 units of superoxide dismutase. The effect of the HMM and LMM fractions of this melanoidin is almost the same. The reaction rate constant of the melanoidin was markedly higher than that of ascorbic acid. If this were due to the reductone structures embedded in the melanodin, it is difficult to explain why the reducing power of the melanoidins is only 0.7 that of ascorbic acid.490... 

Reactions of hydroquinone, catechol, and L-ascorbic acid with dicyanobis(l,10-phenan-thn>line)iion(III) were studied in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). Application of the Marcus theory to the reactions of catechol and hydroquinone provided the electron exchange rate constant for the Fe(III/II) couple in DMSO. The self-exchange rate constant for the ascorbic acidAadical couple was estimated for the first time in DMSO. The one electron-oxidation process of L-ascorbic acid in an aprotic solvents such as DMSO may be completely different from that in aqueous solutions. 

The electron exchange rate constant of the iron(III) complex in DMSO was estimated from the cross reactions with hydroquinone and catechol, which was compared with the rate constant obtained electrochemically. The mechanism of the ascorbic acid oxidation reaction in DMSO is discussed based on the Marcus theory. 

Table II. Rate Constants for Oxidation of Ascorbic Acid/Ascorbate...

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