title: Analysis of the reduction of nitroxides by flavin mononucleotide.
abstract: This article describes a simple method to prepare hydroxylamines from nitroxides by photo-activated flavin mononucleotide. The half-time of reduction varied from 2 to 38.4 s for a series of nitroxides. For most nitroxides short exposures to light (min) were sufficient to produce significant amounts of hydroxylamine; longer periods of exposure increased the yields of other products. Proxyl (2,2,5-trimethyl-5-alkylpyrrolidine-N-oxyl) nitroxides were unusually reactive with a much higher yield of products which could not be reoxidized by ferricyanide to the nitroxides. Optimum conditions for reversible reduction depend on the nitroxide and the amounts of other reducible substances such as oxygen and ferricyanide that may be present.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Illinois State University, Normal 61761.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Morse
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Ruuge
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Petro
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Swartz
mesh_terms: D003497:Cyclic N-Oxides; D005292:Ferricyanides / Q000494:pharmacology; D005486:Flavin Mononucleotide; D006898:Hydroxylamines; D007700:Kinetics; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010100:Oxygen / Q000494:pharmacology; D010777:Photochemistry; D010880:Piperidines; D011759:Pyrrolidines
chemical_list: D003497:Cyclic N-Oxides; D005292:Ferricyanides; D006898:Hydroxylamines; D010880:Piperidines; D011759:Pyrrolidines; C007931:hexacyanoferrate III; D005486:Flavin Mononucleotide; D010100:Oxygen