Quinine, radical addition

The postmodification strategy, in which apoly(glycydyl methacrylate-co-ethylene dimethacrylate) monolith was activated with hydrogen sulfide to a thiol-modified monolith and subsequently derivatized with an 0-9-(tert-butylcarbamoyl)quinine selector by radical addition reaction, yielded slightly less efficient capillary columns. However, this procedure has the advantage that only minute amount of chiral selector are needed to end-up with a useful enantioselective capillary column [84]. 

Scheme 5 Radical addition strategy for quinine synthesis...

Interestingly, Jacobsen et al. have also reported that addition of a /3-hydroxy ammonium salt to the reaction medium accelerates the isomerization in the presence of an /V-benzylated quinine salt epoxidation of cw-stilbene with (27) gives Zrarax-stilbene oxide with 90% ee as the major product (trans cis= >96 4).109 In 2000, Adam et al. reported that the isomerization ratio was related to the triplet-quintet energy gap of the radical intermediate which was affected by the... 

Capsaicin and capsaicinoids undergo Phase I metabolic bioconversion to catechol metabolites via hydroxylation of the vanillyl ring moiety (Lee and Kumar, 1980 Miller et al, 1983). Metabohsm involves oxidative, in addition to non-oxidative, mechanisms. An example of oxidative conversion involves the liver mixed-function oxidase system to convert capsaicin to an electrophilic epoxide, a reactive metabolite (Olajos, 2004). Surh and Lee (1995) have also demonstrated the formation of a phenoxy radical and quinine product the quinine pathway leads to formation of a highly reactive methyl radical (Reilly et al, 2003). The alkyl side chain of capsaicin also undergoes rapid oxidative deamination (Wehmeyer et al, 1990) or hydroxylation (Surh et al, 1995 Reilly et al, 2003) to hydroxycapsaicin as a detoxification pathway. An example of nonoxidative metabolism of capsaicin is hydrolysis of the acid-amide bond to yield vanillylamide and fatty acyl groups (Kawada et al, 1984 Oi et al, 1992). 

Essentially the same spectrum was observed for p-benzoquinone. In tbe spectrum shown in Figure 5.2, it is possible to distinguish the signals of three types of radicals. The triplet signal, characterised by the nitrogen coupling constant =2.82 mT and g = 2.0053, corresponds to oxyaminoxyl radicals [70, 87] arising from the addition of NO to the double bonds of the quinines ... 

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