Vitamin natural rubber

In addition to its role as an intermediate in cholesterol biosynthesis, isopentenyl pyrophosphate is the activated precursor of a huge array of biomolecules with diverse biological roles (Fig. 21-48). They include vitamins A, E, and K plant pigments such as carotene and the phytol chain of chlorophyll natural rubber many essential oils (such as the fragrant principles of lemon oil, eucalyptus, and musk) insect juvenile hormone, which controls metamorphosis dolichols, which serve as lipid-soluble carriers in complex polysaccharide synthesis and ubiquinone and plastoquinone, electron carriers in mitochondria and chloroplasts. Collectively, these molecules are called isoprenoids. More than... 

The vitamin K structure shown earlier is that of K, primarily found in green plants. Vitamin K2 contains from three to six isoprene units (depending on the source), each of which has a double bond. Isoprene, 2-methyl-1,4-butadiene, is found in polymerlike repetitive isoprenoid units in natural rubber, carotenoids, steroids, and smaller compounds... 

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In the last chapter by Singh and Kaplan, vinyl polymerizations induced by oxidoreductase enzymes are described, where a mediator is normally used. The reaction is of radical-type to form a C - C bond main chain. Vitamin C-functionaUzed vinyl monomers and others were polymerized. Such in vitro reactions are unique because nature does not utilize the vinyl-type C - C bond formation reaction except for natural rubber synthesis via polycondensation. 

P Carotene and vitamin A contain double bonds separated from one another by one single bond. We say that the single and double bonds are alternating. The alternation of single and double bonds is called conjugation. Therefore, both p-carotene and vitamin A are conjugated polyenes. Some industrial products are derived from conjugated dienes. Natural rubber is a polymer of isoprene. The synthetic rubbers called neoprenes are produced from chloroprene. 

Chemicals are ubiquitous as air, carbohydrates, enzymes, lipids, minerals, proteins, vitamins, water, and wood. Naturally occurring chemicals are supplemented by man-made substances. There are about 70000 chemicals in use with another 500-1000 added each year. Their properties have been harnessed to enhance the quality of life, e.g. cosmetics, detergents, energy fuels, explosives, fertilizers, foods and drinks, glass, metals, paints, paper, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, plastics, rubber, solvents, textiles thus chemicals are found in virtually all workplaces. Besides the benefits, chemicals also pose dangers to man and the environment. For example ... 

Pyridine is a polar, stable, relatively unreactive liquid (bp 115°C) with a characteristic strong penetrating odor that is unpleasant to most people. It is miscible with both water and organic solvents. Pyridine was first isolated, like pyrrole, from bone pyrolysates. Its name is derived from the Greek for fire (pyr) and the suffix idine used to designate aromatic bases. Pyridine is used as a solvent, in addition to many other uses including products such as pharmaceuticals, vitamins, food flavorings, paints, dyes, rubber products, adhesives, insecticides, and herbicides. Pyridine can also be formed from the breakdown of many natural materials in the environment. 

Starting with the simple compounds acetyl-CoA, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, and pyruvate, which arise via the central pathways of metabolism, the key intermediate isopentenyl diphosphate is formed by two independent mutes. It is then converted by bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals into thousands of different naturally occurring products. These include high polymers, such as rubber, as well as vitamins, sterols, carotenoids, and over 30,000 different terpenes and related compounds. Many of the latter are found only in specific plants where they may function as defensive compounds or pheromones. 

Isoprene is the repeating unit of the natural polymer rubber. It is also the starting material for the synthesis of cholesterol and several of the lipid-soluble vitamins, including vitamin A and vitamin K. The structure of isoprene is seen below. 

Two well-known natural materials are rubber and gutta percha which are cis and trans polyiso-prene, respectively (11.116). Other examples of terpenes are provided by poly prenols (10.63), vitamin A (10.64), certain components of essential oils and the closely related sterols. Terpenes are widespread in nature and many are cyclic compounds. 

Mono- and sesquiterpenes are the main constituents of the essential oils, while the other terpenes are constituents of balsams, resins, waxes, and rubber. Oleoresin is a roughly equal mixture of turpentine (85 % Cio-monoterpenes and 15 % C15- sesquiterpenes) and rosin (C2o-diterpene) that acts in many conifer species as a toxic material to invading insects and their pathogenic fungi [12]. A number of angiosperm species have inducible terpenoid defensive compounds (phytoalexins) [13]. These include both sesquiterpenoid and diterpenoid t)pes. Isoprenoid units are also found within the framework of other natural molecules. Thus, indole alkaloids, several quinones (vitamin K), alcohols (vitamin E, vitamin A formed from p-carotene), phenols, and isoprenoid alcohols (also known as terpenols or polyprenols) also contain terpenoid fragments. The biogenesis. 

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