Proton , pulse radiolysis

An interesting example of the N(9)-C(8) prototropic tautomerism has been reported for the caffeine radical by pulse radiolysis studies in aqueous solution the transformation of the heteroatom-protonated electron adduct 25 into the carbon-protonated tautomer 26 occurred spontaneously in neutral media [95JCS(F)615]. 

Proton inventory technique. 21.9-220 Pseudo-first-order kinetics, 16 Pulse-accelerated-flow method. 255 Pulse radiolysis, 266-268 Pump-probe technique. 266... 

X = 0, CH2, CHCOOH, C(COOH)2, NH, NCH3 N(CH2CH=CH2), N(CHs)2 Cl Bobrowski and Das published a series of papers on the transients in the pulse radiolysis of retinyl polyenes31-37, due to their importance in a variety of biomolecular processes. They studied32 the kinetics and mechanisms of protonation reaction. The protons were released by pulse radiolysis, on a nanosecond time scale, of 2-propanol air-saturated solutions containing, in addition to the retinyl polyenes, also 0.5 M acetone and 0.2 M CCI4. Within less than 300 ns, the electron beam pulse results in formation of HC1. The protonated products of retinyl polyenes were found to absorb optically with Xmax at the range of 475-585 nm and were measured by this absorption. They found that the protonation rate constants of polyene s Schiff bases depend on the polyene chain... 

Dopamine (10) has also been the subject of some study. Maity and coworkers17 have studied the pulse radiolysis or /-irradiation induced reduction of the protonated form. In this instance the addition of an electron affords the radical anion 11 with a bimolecular rate constant for the reaction of 2.5 x 108 M-1 s-1. 

Aromatic radical-cations are generated by pulse-radiolysis of benzene derivatives in aqueous solution. Radiolysis generates solvated electrons, protons and hydroxyl radicals. The electrons are converted by reaction with peroxydisulpbate ion to form sulphate radical-anion, which is an oxidising species, and sulphate. In another proceedure, electrons and protons react with dissolved nitrous oxide to form hydroxyl radicals and water, Hydroxyl radicals are then made to react with either thallium(i) or silver(i) to generate thallium(ii) or silver(ll) which are powerfully... 

Rate constants for the protonation of radical-anions in dimethylformamide by added phenol can be determined by electrochemical techniques [8], Pulse radiolysis methods have been used to measure the rate constants in an alcohol solvent. This technique generates the radical-anion on a very short time scale and uv-spectroscopy is then be used to follow the protonation of this species to give the neutral radical with different uv-absorption characteristics [9]. In the case of anthracene, the protonation rate is 5 x 10 M" s with phenol in dimethylformamide and 5 x 10 s in neat isopropanol. Protonation by hydrogen ions approaches the diflusion-controlled limit with a rate constant of 10 M s in ethanol [9]. 

In a novel kinetic approach, Dorfman et al. developed methods for rapidly generating very reactive carbanions such as the benzyl anion in solvent mixtures containing water and alcohols. With pulsed radiolysis techniques, they have been able to study the fast and very exothermic reactions of carbanions with these solvents. The studies have shown that despite the high exothermicity, the protonation is not diffusion controlled and depends on the nature of the carbanion s counterion. 

There is still considerable controversy concerning the interpretation of pulse-radiolysis results,256-258 and none of these interpretations are in line with the principal conclusions drawn from the e.s.r.-spec-tral experiments.253 In Ref. 257, it was concluded that the principal radical 129 is already protonated at a rather high pH (pK = 4.25 that is, 0.15 unit above that of the parent compound), and that the neutral radical has a further pK value of 1.1. In the second, extended pulse-ra-diolysis study,258 the intermediacy of various OH-adduct radicals was discussed. This view might be supported by the tentative assignment253 of radical 130, observed by e.s.r. spectroscopy. However, the suggestion258 that the principal radical 129 should show a pK of 3 is not compatible with the interpretation of the e.s.r.-spectral results.253... 

Das S, von Sonntag C (1986) Oxidation of trimethylamine by OH radicals in aqueous solution, as studied by pulse radiolysis, ESR and product analysis. The reactions of the alkylamine radical cation, the aminoalkyl radical and the protonated aminoalkyl radical. Z Naturforsch 41b 505-513 Dixon WT, Norman ROC, Buley AL (1964) Electron spin resonance studies of oxidation. Part II. Aliphatic acids and substituted acids. J Chem Soc 3625-3634 Draper HH, Squires EJ, Mahmoodi H, Wu J, Agarwal S, Hadley M (1993) A comparative evaluation of thiobarbituric acid methods for the determination of malondialdehyde in biological materials. Free Rad Biol Med 15 353-363... 

Grollmann U, Schnabel W (1980) On the kinetics of polymer degradation in solution, 9. Pulse radiolysis of polyethylene oxide). Makromol Chem 181 1215-1226 Hamer DH (1986) Metallothionein. In Richardson CC, Boyer PD, Dawid IB, Meister A (eds) Annual review of biochemistry. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, pp 913-951 Held KD, Harrop HA, Michael BD (1985) Pulse radiolysis studies of the interactions of the sulfhydryl compound dithiothreitol and sugars. Radiat Res 103 171-185 Hilborn JW, PincockJA (1991) Rates of decarboxylation of acyloxy radicals formed in the photocleavage of substituted 1-naphthylmethyl alkanoates. J Am Chem Soc 113 2683-2686 Hiller K-O, Asmus K-D (1983) Formation and reduction reactions of a-amino radicals derived from methionine and its derivatives in aqueous solutions. J Phys Chem 87 3682-3688 Hiller K-O, Masloch B, Gobi M, Asmus K-D (1981) Mechanism of the OH radical induced oxidation of methionine in aqueous solution. J Am Chem Soc 103 2734-2743 Hoffman MZ, Hayon E (1972) One-electron reduction of the disulfide linkage in aqueous solution. Formation, protonation and decay kinetics of the RSSR radical. J Am Chem Soc 94 7950-7957... 

From a pulse radiolysis study on the S04 -induced reactions of Thd (Deeble et al. 1990), it has been concluded that the pKa of the Thd radical cation (deprotonation at N(3)) should be near 3.5, i.e. close to that at N( 1) in Thy. It is noted that also in the parent, Thy, the pKa values at N( ) and at N(3) are quite close. A Fourier-transform EPR study using photoexcited anthraquinone-2,5-disulfonic acid to oxidize Cyt and IMeCyt shows that the radical cation of the former de-protonates rapidly at N(l) while that of the latter deprotonates at the exocylic amino group (Geimer et al. 2000). The EPR evidence for the formation of heteroatom-centered radicals by S04 in its reactions with some other pyrimidines (Bansal and Fessenden 1978 Hildenbrand et al. 1989 Catterall et al. 1992) is in agreement with a marked acidity of such radical cations. It is re-emphasized that this conclusion does not require that radical cations are formed in the primary step. 

The resulting neutral radical must have a pKa value > 11, as shown by conductance measurements in pulse radiolysis (Hissung and von Sonntag 1979). The absence of any noticeable changes in the absorption spectrum of the radical derived from Cyd in the pH range 6-13 suggests that its pfCa value is even >13 (Steenken et al. 1992). Like the situation in the corresponding Thy system, the heteroatom-protonated species is not thermodynamically favored and subsequent (irreversible) protonation seems to occur at carbon [reaction (175)], albeit with a rate constant (estimated at 2.5 x 103 s 1 Nese et al. 1992) too slow to be measured by pulse radiolysis. 

Deeble DJ, von Sonntag C (1985) TheUV absorption spectra of theC(5) and C(6) OH adduct radicals of uracil and thymine derivatives. A pulse radiolysis study. Z Naturforsch 40c 925-928 Deeble DJ, von Sonntag C (1987) Radioprotection of pyrimidines by oxygen and sensitization by phosphate a feature of their electron adducts. Int J Radiat Biol 51 791-796 Deeble DJ, Das S, von Sonntag C (1985) Uracil derivatives sites and kinetics of protonation of the radical anions and the UV spectra of theC(5) and C(6) H-atom adducts. J Phys Chem 89 5784-5788... 

Visscher KJ, de Haas MP, Loman H, Vojnovic B, Warman JM (1987) Fast protonation of adenosine and of its radical anion formed by hydrated electron attack a nanosecond optical and dc-conduc-tivity pulse radiolysis study. Int J Radiat Biol 52 745-753 Visscher KJ, Spoelder HJW, Loman H, Hummel A, Horn ML (1988) Kinetics and mechanism of electron transfer between purines and pyrimidines, their dinucleotides and polynucleotides after reaction with hydrated electrons a pulse radiolysis study. Int J Radiat Biol 54 787-802 von Sonntag C (1980) Free radical reactions of carbohydrates as studied by radiation techniques. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 37 7-77... 

Under hypoxic conditions, cellular enzymes reduce the benzotriazine di-N-oxide [(reaction (68) P450 reductase Cahill and White 1990 and NADPH may be involved Walton et al. 1992 Wang et al. 1993]. Upon microsomal reduction of tirapazamine the radical formed in reaction (68) has been identified by EPR (Lloyd et al. 1991). Using the pulse radiolysis technique, it has been shown that this radical has a pKd of 6 (Laderoute et al. 1988), and it is the protonated form that undergoes the DNA damaging reaction (Wardman et al. 2003). The rate constants of the bimolecular decay of the radical [reaction (70)] has been found to be 2.7 x 107 dm3 mol-1 s 1. The reaction with its anion is somewhat faster (8.0 x 108 dm3 mol-1 s 1), while the deprotonated radicals do not react with one another at an appreciable rate. From another set of pulse radiolysis data, a first-order process has been extracted (k = 112 s 1) that has been attributed to the water elimination reaction (72), and the tirapazamine action on DNA [reaction (74)] has been considered to be due to the resulting radical (Anderson et al. 2003). 

There may be a contrast between the effects of various types of ionization. With a heavy particle such as an alpha particle or a proton the specific ionization is very high, that is, many ions are formed per unit path length. Thus ion-ion, ion-radical, and radical-radical reactions may be very important because concentrations of these intermediates are high. With particles of lower mass, such as photoelectrons, the specific ionization is much lower and the chance of second order effects much less. Thus the effect of specific ionization bears some resemblance to that obtained with rotating sectors and pulse radiolysis. 

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