Sodium azide, activated

Mittal, C. K., Kimura, H., and Murad, F. (1977). Purification and properties of a protein factor required for sodium azide activation of guanylation cyclase. J. Biol. Chem. 252, 4384-4390. 

A mixture of the epoxide ca. 5 mmol), sodium azide (6 g, activated by the method of Smith) and 0.25 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid in 70 ml of dimethyl sulfoxide is heated in a flask fitted with a reflux condenser and a drierite tube on a steam bath for 30-40 hr. (Caution carry out reaction in a hood.) The dark reaction mixture is poured into 500 ml of ice water and the product may be filtered, if solid, and washed well with water or extracted with ether and washed with sodium bicarbonate and the water. The crude azido alcohols are usually recrystallized from methanol. 

Sodium azide (Eastman, 97-99%) is activated by dissolving 100 g of the salt in 400 ml of distilled water and stirring with 14 ml of hydrazine hydrate for 15 min. The solution is filtered and added dropwise to 4 liters of rapidly stirred, dry acetone. The solid is collected by filtration and washed with 150 ml of dry acetone. The fine powder (57-85 g) is dried under vacuum at 50° for 2 hr. Sodium azide is extremely toxic and the fine powder should be handled with care to avoid breathing the dust. 

Incorporation of the phenethyl moiety into a carbocyclic ring was at first sight compatible with amphetamine-like activity. Clinical experience with one of these agents, tranylcypromine (79), revealed the interesting fact that this drug in fact possessed considerable activity as a monamine oxidase inhibitor and as such was useful in the treatment of depression. Decomposition of ethyl diazoacetate in the presence of styrene affords a mixture of cyclopropanes in which the trans isomer predominates. Saponification gives acid 77. Conversion to the acid chloride followed by treatment with sodium azide leads to the isocyanate, 78, via Curtius rearrangement. Saponification of 78 affords tranylcypromine (79). 

Replacement of chlorine on the pendant benzoyl group by azide is apparently consistent with antiinflammatory activity. Acylation of indomethacin intermediate with p-nitrobenzoyl chloride leads to the corresponding amide (7). Saponification ( ) followed by reduction of the nitro group gives the amine 9. The diazonium salt (10) obtained on treatment with nitrous acid is then reacted with sodium azide there is thus obtained zidomethacin (11). 

Forster and van Gelderen have prepared a characteristic nitro-derivative of dipentene by treating dipentene nitrosochloride with sodium azide.. The resulting body, C (,H 5(NOH)N3, dipentene nitroso-azide. melts at 72° to 73°. The corresponding active limonene derivatives melt at 52° to 53°. 

Cyclic GMP is made from GTP by the enzyme gua-nylyl cyclase, which exists in soluble and membrane-bound forms. Each of these isozymes has unique physiologic properties. The atriopeptins, a family of peptides produced in cardiac atrial tissues, cause natriuresis, diuresis, vasodilation, and inhibition of aldosterone secretion. These peptides (eg, atrial natriuretic factor) bind to and activate the membrane-bound form of guanylyl cyclase. This results in an increase of cGMP by as much as 50-fold in some cases, and this is thought to mediate the effects mentioned above. Other evidence links cGMP to vasodilation. A series of compounds, including nitroprusside, nitroglycerin, nitric oxide, sodium nitrite, and sodium azide, all cause smooth muscle re-... 

Gel Filtration. The lyophilized protein was redissolved in 50 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.4 0.15 m NaCl 0.013 % sodium azide and loaded on a Superdex 75HR1030 column equilibrated with the same buffer. Elution was downward flow (0.15 ml/min) and 0.25 ml fi actions were collected. Fractions with pectin lyase activity were combined, dialyzed against distilled water and used in the next step. To estimate the molecular mass of PNL, the column was calibrated with standard proteins (Sigma MW-GF-70 Albumin, 66,000 Da Carbonic Anhidrase, 29,00 Cytochrome, 12,400 and Aprotinin, 6,500). The proteins were eluted in the conditions described above and their volumes (F ) were calculated fi om the peak maximum of the absorbance at 280 nm. The partition coefficient was obtained fi om the relationship where F, represents the bed volmne of column and F the void volume (which was calculated using blue dextran. Sigma). The molecular mass was determined using a standard curve of vs the logarithm of the molecular masses of the standards [28, 29]... 

Figure 2. Gel filtration. The dry residue obtained after ammonium sulfate precipitation was redissolved in 50 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.4 0.15 M NaCl 0.013 % sodium azide, which was loaded on a Superdex 75HR1030 column equilibrated with the same buffer. Elution was downward flow (0.15 ml/min) and 0.25 ml fractions were collected. The fractions were assayed for protein content (— ) and PNL activity (- - ).

Another important click reaction is the cycloaddition of azides. The addition of sodium azide to nitriles to give l//-tetrazoles is shown to proceed readily in water with zinc salts as catalysts (Eq. 11.71).122 The scope of the reaction is quite broad a variety of aromatic nitriles, activated and nonactivated alkyl nitriles, substituted vinyl nitriles, thiocyanates, and cyanamides have all been shown to be viable substrates for this reaction. The reaction of an arylacetylene with an azide in hot water gave 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles in high yields,123 while a similar reaction between a terminal aliphatic alkyne and an azide (except 111 - nitroazidobenzcnc) afforded a mixture of regioisomers with... 

Hydrazide-activated proteins are stable to long-term storage at 4°C in the presence of a preservative (0.05 percent sodium azide) or in a frozen or lyophilized state. 

Azide 367 is prepared from 4-r -butyl-2-nitroaniline in 76% yield by its diazotization followed by treatment with sodium azide. In a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with cyanoacetamide, azide 367 is converted to triazole 368 that without separation is directly subjected to Dimroth rearrangement to give derivative 369 in 46% yield. Reduction of the nitro group provides ortfc-phenylenediamine 371 in 91% yield <2000EJM715>. Cyclocondensation of diamine 371 with phosgene furnishes benzimidazol-2-one 370 in 39% yield, whereas its reaction with sodium nitrite in 18% HC1 leads to benzotriazole derivative 372, which is isolated in 66% yield (Scheme 59). Products 370 and 372 exhibit potassium channel activating ability <2001FA841>. 

Other applications dealt with the development of a luciferin ester substrate to measure the luciferase activity in living cells [141], the detection of toxic compounds such as sodium azide, fluoroacetic acid, and antibiotics [142], the development of a biosensor for the determination of bioavailable mercury [143], the use of eukaryotic luciferases as bacterial markers with different colors of luminescence [144], the determination of complement-mediated killing of bacteria [145], and the development of a bioassay for the determination of HIV type 1 virus and HIV-1 Tat protein activity, valuable also for analysis of HlV-inhibi-tory agents [146],... 

The sulfamate ester variant of this chemistry has already been shown to be a very powerful protocol for the syntheses of 1,3-amino alcohols and related /3-amino acids (Equation (90)), as well as iminium ion equivalents (Equation (91)). The further showcases of this chemistry are the total syntheses of the bromopyrrole alkaloids, manzacidins A and C (Scheme 13).234 The cyclic sulfamidate 129 was obtained diastereospecifically from sulfamate 128 using intramolecular rhodium-catalyzed G-H insertion. It was then found to react with sodium azide in NfN-dimethylformamide at room temperature after introduction of the Boc-activating group to afford the 1,3-diamino precursor 130 in 78% yield over 3 steps. Four subsequent manipulations afford the target structure 131. 

Indicine IV-oxide (169) (Scheme 36) is a clinically important pyrrolizidine alkaloid being used in the treatment of neoplasms. The compound is an attractive drug candidate because it does not have the acute toxicity observed in other pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Indicine IV-oxide apparently demonstrates increased biological activity and toxicity after reduction to the tertiary amine. Duffel and Gillespie (90) demonstrated that horseradish peroxidase catalyzes the reduction of indicine IV-oxide to indicine in an anaerobic reaction requiring a reduced pyridine nucleotide (either NADH or NADPH) and a flavin coenzyme (FMN or FAD). Rat liver microsomes and the 100,000 x g supernatant fraction also catalyze the reduction of the IV-oxide, and cofactor requirements and inhibition characteristics with these enzyme systems are similar to those exhibited by horseradish peroxidase. Sodium azide inhibited the TV-oxide reduction reaction, while aminotriazole did not. With rat liver microsomes, IV-octylamine decreased... 

Positive Controls. Where possible, positive controls should be chosen that are structurally related to the test article. This increases confidence in the results. In the absence of structurally related mutagens, the set of positive controls given in Table 6.7 can be used. The use of such controls validates each test run and helps to confirm the nature of each strain. Pagano and Zeiger (1985) have shown that it is possible to store stock solutions of most routinely used positive controls (sodium azide, 2-aminoanthracene, benzo[u]phyene, 4-nitroquinoline oxide) at — 20°C to — 80°C for several months, without loss of activity. This measure can help reduce potential exposure of laboratory personnel. 

Notes. When using biotin-labeled secondary antibodies instead of enzyme-labeled antibodies, you have first to detect biotin with enzyme-labeled (strept) avidin and proceed further with the Substrate Step (9). Do not add normal serum, non-fat dried milk, culture media or other potential sources of biotin to (strept)avidin-containing reagents. This may result in reduced sensitivity. Solutions containing sodium azide or other inhibitors of peroxidase activity should not be used in diluting the peroxidase substrate. 

The reaction of Curtius, which is especially to be preferred in the case of the higher members on account of the favourable solubilities of the intermediate products, involves as its first stage the preparation of the hydrazide from an ester (or acid chloride). The hydrazide is then converted, usually very readily, by the action of nitrous acid into the azide. In many cases it is more convenient to prepare the azide by treating an acid chloride with sodium azide previously activated with hydrazine hydrate.1 Azides easily undergo thermal decomposition, the two azo nitrogen atoms being eliminated as elementary nitrogen. In this way, however, the same radicle is formed as was invoked above to explain the Hofmann reaction ... 

When an automobile collision activates an air bag, sodium azide, NaN3(g), decomposes to form sodium, Na(s), and nitrogen gas, N2(g). (The gas inflates the bag.) This chemical reaction occurs almost instantaneously. It inflates the air bag quickly enough to cushion a driver s impact in a collision. 

The addition of sodium azide to nitriles to give IH-tetrazoles is shown to proceed readily in water with zinc salts as catalysts. The scope of the reaction is quite broad a variety of aromatic nitriles, activated and unactivated alkyl nitriles, substituted vinyl nitriles, thiocyanates, and cyanamides have all been shown to be viable substrates for this reaction. 

Sodium is stable in nitrogen at most temperatures. Reaction, however, occurs at very high temperatures or when nitrogen is activated by electric discharge. The products are sodium azide, NaNs, and sodium nitride, NasN ... 

Are properties of the molecule of interest inhibited by components of the buffers (e.g., inhibition of hem proteins by sodium azide or enzyme activity by SDS) ... 

DMSO, Sodium azide, DINA, Methylene chloride. Sodium sulfate. Activated alumina Methyl green. Sodium picramate. Hydrochloric acid. Sodium nitrate... 

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