Herein, we demonstrated the use of gas-phase intra-molecular reactions facilitated by collisional activation to investigate bi-molecular reactions with inherent low reactivity. Reactions between sulfinyl radicals (-SO˙) toward free thiol (-SH) were employed as a model system. A new reaction channel, i.e. sulfinyl exchange with thiol, was observed under beam-type collision-induced dissociation (...

In the title compound, C(19)H(20)O(2)S, the cyclo-hexyl ring adopts a chair conformation and the aryl-sulfinyl unit is positioned equatorial relative to the cyclo-hexyl group. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked through weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The O atom of the sulfinyl group is disordered over two orientations with site-occupancy factors of 0.923 (3) and 0.077 (3).

Recently, a novel electron spin resonance (ESR) spin-trapping agent, 2-(diphenylphosphinoyl)-2-methyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrrole N-oxide (Diphenyl-PMPO), was synthesized. Because it had some advantages in stability and reactivity over conventional spin-trapping agents, we applied it to the ESR analyses of superoxide anion radical scavenging activity (SOSA) of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and of well-...

Most research on unburned tobacco has focused on the harmful chemicals associated with the tobacco itself. However, certain flavor additives in tobacco products can pose additional health risks. Flavors like camphor, coumarin, pulegone, eugenol, methyl salicylate, menthol and diphenyl ether have exhibited biological activity and/or toxicity in both lab animals and humans. This publication prese...

Model reactions offer a chemical mechanism by which formation of a sulfenyl amide residue at the active site of the redox-regulated protein tyrosine phosphatase PTP1B protects the cysteine redox switch in this enzyme against irreversible oxidative destruction. The results suggest that 'overoxidation' of the sulfenyl amide redox switch to the sulfinyl amide in proteins is a chemically reversible...

Pseudo-macrocyclic complexes of copper(II), and in one instance nickel(II), incorporating the bidentate ligands methyl N-(4-oxo-5,5-diphenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-2-yl)imidocarbamate and N,N-dimethyl-N'-(4-oxo-5,5-diphenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-2-yl)guanidine are reported and their X-ray structures compared with those previously reported for related complexes of two N-(4-oxo- 5,5-diphenyl-4...

The effects of the diphenyl ether herbicides HOE 29152 (methyl-2[4-(4-trifluoromethoxy) phenoxy] propanoate) and nitrofluorfen (2-chloro-1-[4-nitrophenoxy]-4-[trifluoromethyl]benzene) on photosynthetic electron transport have been examined with pea seedling and spinach chloroplasts. Linear electron transport (water to ferricyanide or methylviologen) is inhibited in treated chloroplasts, but nei...