Xanthines, 7-hydroxy

Xanthine, 8-ethyl-synthesis, 5, 574 Xanthine, 9-hydroxy-8-methyl-synthesis, S, 596 Xanthine, 1-methyl-deuterium-hydrogen exchange, S, 527 methylation, S, 533 occurrence, S, 598 reduction, 5, 541 synthesis, S, 589 Xanthine, 3-methyl-deuterium-hydrogen exchange, S, 528 methylation, S, 533 reduction, S, 541 synthesis, S, 595 Xanthine, 7-methyl-deuterium-hydrogen exchange alkylation, S, 527 reduction, S, 541 synthesis, S, 587 Xanthine, 8-methyl-synthesis, S, 574 Xanthine, 9-methyl-methylation, S, 533 nitration, 5, 538... 

Because aromatic purines and purine nucleosides and free purines such as hypo-xanthine and guanine 242 are readily silylated-aminated [64] (cf Scheme 4.24), it is obvious that 6-membered hydroxy-N-heterocycles are analogously silylated-aminated, with reactivity in the order given in Scheme 4.25 [73] X=OTf is the best leaving group and X=NHSiMe3 (cf the transamination as discussed in Section 4.2.4) is the weakest. 

Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT) deficiency is an inherited disorder of purine metabolism and is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner (K18, V7). This enzyme deficiency results in an inability to salvage the purine base adenine, which is oxidized via the 8-hydroxy intermediate by xanthine oxidase to 2,8-di-hydroxyadenine (2,8-DHA). This produces crystalluria and the possible formation of kidney stones due to the excretion of excessive amounts of this insoluble purine. Type I, with virtually undetectable enzyme activity, found predominantly in Caucasians, is found in homozygotes or compound heterozygotes for null alleles. Type II, with significant APRT activity, found only in Japan, is related to a missense mu-... 

Methylation of some form of 6-mercaptopurine in man has been established by the identification of 6-(methylsulphinyl)-8-hydroxypurine (LXV), 6-(methylthio)uric acid (LX), and 6-(methylthio)-8-hydroxy-A -glucuronide (LXVll). The oxidation of 6-(methylthio)purine to 6-(methylthio)-8-hydroxy-purine (LXVl) is mediated much more rapidly by rabbit liver aldehyde oxidase than by xanthine oxidase, and the oxidation is not inhibited by 4-hydroxy-pyrazolo [3, 4-d] pyrimidine [269], which is known to be an effective inhibitor of xanthine oxidase, and consequently, of the oxidation of 6-mercaptopurine [12,268]. 

The amino groups are replaced with oxygen. Although here a biochemical reaction, the same can be achieved under acid-catalysed hydrolytic conditions, and resembles the nucleophilic substitution on pyrimidines (see Section 11.6.1). The first-formed hydroxy derivative would then tautomerize to the carbonyl structure. In the case of guanine, the product is xanthine, whereas adenine leads to hypoxanthine. The latter compound is also converted into xanthine by an oxidizing enzyme, xanthine oxidase. This enzyme also oxidizes xanthine at C-8, giving uric acid. 

Cytosine (2-hydroxy-6-amino-pyrimidine), uracil (2,6-dihydroxypyrimidine), and thymine (5-methyluracil) are pyrimidine derivatives adenine (6-aminopurine), guanine (2-amino-6-hy-droxypurine), and xanthine (2,6-dihydroxypurine) are purine derivatives (Fig. 5). 

Aldehyde Oxidase. This enzyme is usually found in similar locations to xanthine oxidase or dehydrogenase and has been isolated from insects, birds, and mammals (20, 21). Aldehyde oxidase seems to be a poor choice of name for this enzyme because, while it oxidizes aldehydes to carboxylic acids, it also accepts a variety of purines and pyrimidines as oxidizable substrates. For example, aldehyde oxidase catalyzes the conversion of 2-hydroxypyrimidine to uracil and of adenine to 8-hydroxy-adenine (25). It appears that xanthine oxidase and aldehyde oxidase are... 

McWhirter, R. B., and Hille, R., 1991, The reductive half-reaction of xanthine oxidase. Spectral intermediates in the hydroxylation of 2-hydroxy-6-methylpurine, J. Biol. Chem. 266 23724923731. 

Adenine, guanine, guanylurea, and several s-triazines and ureas have been detected in HCl-extracts of Orgueil and Murchison (Hayatsu, 1964 Hayatsu et al, 1968, 1975). The first 3 were confirmed by Stoks and Schwartz (1981), but the s-triazines were not they may have formed from guanylurea in the isolation and identification procedure. Other compounds detected are xanthine, hypoxanthine, and uracil (van der Velden and Schwartz, 1977 Stoks and Schwartz, 1979). A report of 4-hydroxy-pyrimidine and several related compounds (Folsorae et al, 1973) was not confirmed (Hayatsu et al, 1975 van der Velden and Schwartz, 1977) these compounds, which... 

Treatment of DNA with hydrogen peroxide or other free radical-generating systems (snch as xanthine/xanthine oxidase) can also result in the formation of an imidazole ring-opened derivative of guanine, designated 2,6-diamino-4-hydroxy-5-formamidopyrimidine (FaPy) (26). This lesion is prominent... 

A 2- or 6-hydroxy-substituted purine can be prepared from the corresponding 4,5-diamino-pyrimidinol by cyclization with an acid, ester, ortho ester, or amide. If the ring closure is performed with reagents such as urea, alkyl chloroformates, urethanes, phosgene, and alkyl isocyanates, the 8-hydroxypurines are formed. Various xanthine and uric acid derivatives have been prepared by the condensation of 5,6-diaminopyrimidine-2,4-diols with formic acid. Purin-2-ol (1) was prepared by this route from 4,5-diaminopyrimidin-2-ol and ethyl orthoformate. ... 

Unlike hypoxanthin-l-ol, xanthin-l-ol is precluded from N1 to C2 oxygen transition, but instead undergoes an N1 to N3 hydroxy group translocation. ... 

Doradexanthin (24) and 4 -hydroxy-4-keto-j8-carotene are present in the pigments of goldfish, Violeoxanthin was shown to be a cis-isomer of viola-xanthin (25). 

Theobromine was shown to be di-methyl xanthine or di-methyl di-hydroxy purine. 

Caffeine and theine were shown to be tri-methyl xanthine or trimethyl di-hydroxy purine. 

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