Oxygen with nitric oxide

Two of the many products of ethylene radiolysis—methane and propane—show no or only negligible variation with field strength. Methane is produced by a molecular elimination process, as evidenced by the inability of oxygen or nitric oxide to quench its formation even when these additives are present in 65 mole % concentration (34). Propane is completely eliminated by trace amounts of the above scavengers, suggesting methyl and ethyl radicals as precursors ... 

Hund37 in 1926 and of oxygen and nitric oxide by Van Vleck38 in 1928 were triumphs of the theory of spectra. The magnetic moment of an atom or monatomic ion with Russell-Saunders coupling of the quantum vectors is... 

Derive a rate expression that is consistent with this mechanism. Treacy and Daniels [J. Am. Chem. Soc., 11 (2033), 1955] have determined that the orders of the reaction with respect to oxygen and nitric oxide are one and two, respectively, at high pressures and less than one and greater than two at low pressures. Is the proposed mechanism consistent with this data ... 

The associative reaction of oxygen atoms with nitric oxide produces the yellow-green chemiluminescence in the air afterglow, easily seen by the naked eye. The reaction has long been used to measure the concentrations of O atoms in kinetics experiments [49-51] and is so bright that it has been used to visualize... 

The formation of nitric oxide in microsomes results in the inhibition of microsomal reductase activity. It has been found that the inhibitory effect of nitric oxide mainly depend on the interaction with cytochrome P-450. NO reversibly reacts with P-450 isoforms to form the P-450-NO complex, but at the same time it irreversibly inactivates the cytochrome P-450 via the modification of its thiol residues [64]. Incubation of microsomes with nitric oxide causes the inhibition of 20-HETE formation from arachidonic acid [65], the generation of reactive oxygen species [66], and the release of catalytically active iron from ferritin [67],... 

A very simple and effective method of increasing the intensity of Ti So transitions by several orders of magnitude was introduced by Evans 53-s5) Either the pure liquid or concentrated solutions of an aromatic hydrocarbon in chloroform were saturated with oxygen or nitric oxid at high pressures. The newly appearing absorption bands are proportional to the applied gas pressures from 0—100 atm. The So absorptions are in general well structured and the posi-... 

Sawyer, R. F., and Classman, I., The Reactions of Hydrogen with Nitrogen Dioxide, Oxygen, and Mixtrues of Oxygen and Nitric Oxide, 12 th Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1969, pp. 469-479. 

Oxygen difluoride is a strong oxiding agent. When mixed with hydrogen, carbon monoxide, methane or carbon, and ignited with an electrical shock, the mixture explodes forming various products. It catches fire in contact with nitric oxide. 

Superoxide (02 ) is the one electron reduced form of molecular oxygen. It reacts irreversibly and at close to the diffusion limit with nitric oxide (Huie and Padmaja, 1993) to form the powerful oxidant peroxynitrite anion (ONOO ). 

The reaction of nitric oxide with superoxide dismutase is a simple reversible equilibrium, whereas the catalytic cycle with superoxide involves a two step sequence. Consequently, superoxide dismutase may be reduced by superoxide and then react with nitric oxide to form nitroxyl anion. Nitroxyl anion may react with molecular oxygen to form peroxynitrite anion (ONOO"). 

The redox potentials of various oxidants derived from nitric oxide and peroxynitrite are summarized in Table 4. Clearly, as the adducts of molecular oxygen and nitric oxide become more reduced, they form substantially stronger oxidizing agents. In effect, addition of one electron makes these nitrogen oxides more ready to accept the next. The precise pathway of decomposition followed is influenced by what types of target molecules come in contact with peroxynitrite and is... 

The direct reaction of superoxide with nitric oxide is only one of at least four possible pathways that can form peroxynitrite (Fig. 40). For example, superoxide should also efficiently reduce nitrosyldioxyl radical to peroxynitrite. Alternatively, nitric oxide may be reduced to nitroxyl anion, which reacts with oxygen to form peroxynitrite. Superoxide dismutase could even catalyze the formation of peroxynitrite, since reduced (Cu or cuprous) superoxide dismutase can reduce nitric oxide to nitroxyl anion (Murphy and Sies, 1991). Thus, superoxide might first reduce superoxide dismutase to the cuprous form, with nitric oxide reacting with reduced superoxide dismutase to produce nitroxyl anion. A fourth pathway to form peroxynitrite is by the rapid reaction of nitrosonium ion (NO" ) with hydrogen peroxide. This is a convenient synthetic route for experimental studies (Reed et al., 1974), but not likely to be physiologically relevant due to the low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and the difficulty of oxidizing nitric oxide to nitrosonium ion. 

Wade, R., and Castro, C. (1990). Redox reactivity of iron(lll) porphyrins and heme proteins with nitric oxide. Nitrosyl transfer to carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur. Chem. Res. Toxicol. 3, 289-291. 

Although oxygen radicals are destructive to islet cells, the inability of nicotinamide, Probucol, and other free radical scavengers to completely prevent cytokine mediated islet destruction suggests that other cytotoxic mechanisms may be involved in cytokine-induced islet-cell lysis. The possible interactions of superoxide with nitric oxide resulting in the generation of peroxynitrite and hydroxyl radicals may contribute to islet-cell lysis. The chemistry of these free radical interactions, and potential biological roles t)f these toxic radicals are reviewed in this book (see Chapter 1). 

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