Short-Lived Quinonoid Species from 5,6-Dihydroxyindole Dimers en Route to Eumelanin Polymers: Integrated Chemical, Pulse Radiolytic, and Quantum Mechanical Investigation
作者:Alessandro Pezzella、Lucia Panzella、Orlando Crescenzi、Alessandra Napolitano、Suppiah Navaratman、Ruth Edge、Edward J. Land、Vincenzo Barone、Marco d'Ischia
DOI:10.1021/ja0650246
日期:2006.12.1
The transient species formed by oxidation of three dimers of 5,6-dihydroxyindole (1), a major building block of the natural biopolymer eumelanin, have been investigated. Pulse radiolytic oxidation of 5,5',6,6'-tetrahydroxy-2,4'-biindolyl (3) and 5,5',6,6'-tetrahydroxy-2,7'-biindolyl (4) led to semiquinones absorbing around 450 nm, which decayed with second-order kinetics (2k=2.8x10(9) and 1.4x10(9)
已经研究了由 5,6-二羟基吲哚 (1) 的三个二聚体氧化形成的瞬态物种,这是天然生物聚合物真黑色素的主要组成部分。5,5',6,6'-四羟基-2,4'-二吲哚基 (3) 和 5,5',6,6'-四羟基-2,7'-二吲哚基 (4) 的脉冲辐解氧化导致半醌吸收大约 450 nm,它以二级动力学(分别为 2k=2.8x10(9) 和 1.4x10(9) M-1 s-1)衰减,得到相应的醌(500-550 nm)。另一方面,5,5',6, 6'-四羟基-2,2'-二吲哚基 (2) 提供了一种半醌 (lamdamax=480 nm),其歧化速率相当 (2k=3x10(9) M -1 s-1) 得到相对稳定的醌 (lamdamax=570 nm)。邻醌、醌亚胺的量子力学研究 2-4 的醌甲基化物结构表明氧化的 2-4 主要以 2-取代的扩展醌甲基化物互变异构体形式存在。最后,首次分离出 3 的氧化产物,并将其配制成羟基化衍生物