Reduction nitrite/nitrate addition

N-Nitrosamines, formed principally from the reaction of naturally occurring secondary amines with nitrites that may be added to foods or produced by bacterial reduction of nitrates, have been identified in many food systems including cured meat products, nonfat dried milk, dried malt and beer. In addition, the presence of less volatile and non-volatile N-nitroso compounds or their precursors in foods have been suggested from a number of model system studies. 

Although nittate was the traditional meat curing salt, Haldane (1901) demonstrated cured meat pigment development by addition of nitrite to hemoglobin. Hoagland (1908) concluded that bacterial or muscle tissue reduction of nitrate... 

The reaction of Mo(H20)63+ and nitrate in aqueous solutions results in the formation of Mo2Oi(H20)62+ and nitrite. Mo(III) coordinated to oxygen and nitrogen donor atoms of EDTA also reduces nitrate in aqueous solutions. The reduction of nitrate by a Mo(III)-EDTA complex results in the formation of nitrite and a Mo(V)-EDTA complex, as determined by chemical and spectrophotometric techniques. These reactions serve as models for biological nitrate reduction. In addition, molybdate coordinates to naturally produced phenolates. The molybdenum-coordinating phenolates also coordinate tungstate and ferric iron. Two of these phenolates contain threonine, glycine, alanine, and 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid. 

Catalases are mainly present in microorganisms such as Kocuria and Staphylococcus and are responsible for peroxide reduction. This reaction contributes to eolor and flavor stabilization. Nitrate reductase, also present in those microorganisms, is a very important enzyme for the reduction of nitrate to nitrite in slow ripened sausages where there is initial addition of nitrate. Recently, two strains of Lactobacillus fermentum have proved to be able to generate nitric oxide and give an acceptable color in sausages without nitrate/nitrite. This may be important in the case of cured meats with no addition of either nitrate or nitrite (Moller et al. 2003). 

The reduction of carbon dioxide to formate in the presence of FDH represents a photochemical C02-fixation process. In addition to MV+, the enzyme recognizes other electron carriers such as 2,2 -bipyridinium radical cations [184]. Reduction of nitrate (N03 ) to nitrite (NO2 ) and subsequently the reduction of nitrite to ammonia in the presence of NitraR and NitriR, respectively, allows the sequential 8e ... 

Hydrazine salts have been prepared by the action of hypochlorites on ammonia (1) or urea (2) by the hydrolysis of salts of sulfohydrazimethylene disiilfonic acid (3) by the hydrolysis of triazoacetic acid (4) by the reduction of diazoacetic ester (5) by the reduction of nitroguanidine followed by hydrolysis (6) by the reduction of the nitroso derivatives of hexamethylene tetramine (7) by the reduction of nitrates or nitrites with zinc in neutral solution (8) by the action of sodium bisulfite on hyponitrous acid followed by reduction (9) by the reduction of K2S03N202 (10) by the action of ammonia on dichlorourea (11) by the reduction of nitrosoparaldimin (12) by the action of copper sulfate on ammonia at high temperatures (13) by the reduction of methylene diisonitrosoamine (14) by the hydrolysis of the addition product of diazoacetic ester and fumaric or cinnamic esters (15). 

In broad outline, the reduction and assimilation of inorganic sulfate and nitrate in plants have several features in common. Both processes entail 8 c reductions to inorganic forms (sulfide and ammonia, respectively) in energy-requiring reactions prior to incorporation into appropriate acceptor molecules. With the exception of the partial reduction of nitrate to nitrite in the cytoplasm, assimilation of sulfate and nitrite occurs in chloroplasts in reactions which are dependent on light for a supply of Fdred and ATP. However, the processes differ in many aspects of detail. For example ATP is required for activation of sulfate prior to reduction but in the nitrate assimilation pathway ATP is required after reduction for the incorporation of ammonia into glutamine. In addition, sulfate activation has no counterpart in nitrate reduction and, whereas sulfate remains bound to a carrier during reduction, the intermediates of nitrate remain free. 

D. desulfuricans also showed a membrane-associated or soluble nitrate reductase catalyzing the respiratory reduction of nitrate to nitrite [ 134-136]. A cytochrome c-dependent nitrate reductase was also isolated from Geobacter metallireducens [137], Obviously, nitrate uptake and nitrite extrusion into the bulk phase is dispensable for periplasmic nitrate reductases. In addition, a periplasmic location of nitrate reductases will prevent the interaction of potentially toxic compounds such as nitrite or NO with cytoplasmic proteins. 

The biological reduction of nitrate is not heme-related a well-known family of Mo-oxo pterin enzymes facilitate O-atom transfers between nitrite and nitrate, sulfite and sulfate, and other substratesStill, the electrochemical reduction of nitrate on bare metal electrodes is well known, and can also be facilitated by addition of N4 chelates. For instance, Hobbs et al. have examined the electrochemical reduction of nitrate in basic solutions using iron and nickel electrodes coated with phthalocyanin yielding nitrite, hydroxylamine, and ammonia. The iron electrodes efficiency increased when coated with phthalocyanin while the nickel s activity decreased. A related study has been done by Shibata et al. to determine the synthetic applications of simultaneous reduction of nitrate and carbon dioxide using phthalocyanin complexes of most of the first-row transition metals and other metals with mixed success . 

Under strongly acidic conditions, the diketone (these highly electrophilic systems are reactive toward weak nucleophiles) Ukely undergoes nitrate addition, which is followed by attack of water, ring opening, and reduction of nitrate to nitrite. All this activity ultimately leads to the formation of the desired compound, the open-chain dicarboxylic acid, adipic acid ... 

Tronconi and coworkers have proposed a fast SCR kinetic mechanistic model that is based on a Redox mechanism [27, 57, 58]. Like the LH SCR model, the Redox SCR model has adsorbed NH3 reacting with gas phase HONO or surface nitrites, forming NH4NO2, which decomposes to N2 (cf. S22). The nitrites are formed through the reduction of nitrates by NO (step S9). Additional steps would include the formation of NH4NO3 and its decomposition to N2O, among others. 

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