This paper describes the behavior in aqueous solutions of the two electron oxidation products of the carcinogens benzidine and N,N-dimethylbenzidine. In biological systems there is evidence that these diamines are oxidized by peroxidases, and that a product of this oxidation may be partly responsible for carcinogenicity. Entry into the oxidation products in the present study was provided through the bis-perchlorate salts of dications obtained upon chemical oxidation and through the irradiation of 4'-amino and 4'-N,N-dimethylamino-4-azidobiphenyls. The benzidine oxidation product exists in three conjugate acid-base forms, a dication, a monocation and neutral bisimine, with pKa(1) = 5.0 and pKa(2) = 9.0. These values stand in marked contrast to ones previously obtained for the two electron oxidation product of p-phenylenediamine, pKa(1) < 1.5 and pKa(2) = 5.75. The dimethylamino derivative, blocked from forming the neutral form, exists as a dication and monocation, with pKa= 5.0. Both systems are quite long-lived in aqueous solution, but they do decay on the minutes-to-hours time scale. The kinetics can be explained by reactions of both the dication and the monocation with water, with a reaction of hydroxide and the monocation becoming important around pH 10. One surprising result is that the monocations are two orders of magnitude more reactive than the dications. Thus, at neutral pH the form that exists in both systems is the monocation, and this is the species that is the most reactive towards the solvent. One of the resonance contributors in the monocation is a 4-biphenylylnitrenium ion. Comparison with other 4'-substituted-4-biphenylylnitrenium ions studied by laser flash photolysis shows that the 4'-amino- and 4'-dimethylamino substituents are highly kinetically stabilizing. These cations, for example, are a billion-fold longer-lived in aqueous solution than the parent 4-biphenylylnitrenium ion.Key words: quinone bisimine, nitrenium, aryl azide.
本文描述了致癌物
苯胺和
N,N-二甲基苯胺的两个电子氧化产物在
水溶液中的行为。在
生物系统中,有证据表明这些二
胺类化合物会被
过氧化物酶氧化,这种氧化产物可能部分导致了致癌性。本研究中氧化产物的进入是通过
化学氧化得到的双
氯酸盐和对
氨基苯基和N,N-二甲基
氨基苯基氮杂
联苯的辐照提供的。
苯胺氧化产物存在三种共轭酸碱形式,一个双阳离子,一个单阳离子和中性双
亚胺,其pK
a(1) = 5.0和pK
a(2) = 9.0。这些值与以前得到的
对苯二胺的两个电子氧化产物的值形成鲜明对比,pK
a(1) < 1.5和pK
a(2) = 5.75。被阻止形成中性形式的二甲基
氨基衍
生物存在为双阳离子和单阳离子,其pK
a = 5.0。这两个体系在
水溶液中非常稳定,但在几分钟到几小时的时间尺度上会衰减。动力学可以通过双阳离子和单阳离子与
水的反应来解释,碱和单阳离子的反应在pH 10左右变得重要。一个令人惊讶的结果是,单阳离子的反应性比双阳离子高两个数量级。因此,在中性pH下,两个体系中存在的形式都是单阳离子,这是对溶剂最具反应性的物种。单阳离子中的一个共振贡献者是4-
联苯基硝基离子。与激光闪光光解研究的其他4'-取代-4-
联苯基硝基离子进行比较表明,4'-
氨基和4'-二甲基
氨基取代基具有很高的动力学稳定性。例如,这些阳离子在
水溶液中的寿命比母体4-
联苯基硝基离子长了十亿倍。关键词:醌双
亚胺,硝基离子,芳基偶氮。