A comparison of the transient absorption spectra from the photolysis of disulfides in solution suggests that C-S bond breakage is a common primary photolytic process. This process becomes more important as the resulting carbon centered radical is stabilized by increasing alkyl substitution or resonance interaction with an aromatic system. The perthiyl radical product is characterized by i,,, -380nm,r3,, -1700 M -' cm-' and decays by second order kinetics with k2 -3.7 x 10" M -' s -' in water.In the presence of 0,. the photolysis of disulfides which produce the thiyl radical give transient absorptions in the 5 W 0 0 nm region. Possible identities of these transients are discussed.
Abstract— The initial yields of the cation and neutral radicals and the triplet are greatly enhanced when high concentrations of Br‐ are present during the flash photolysis of aqueous solutions containing either tryptophan or N‐acetyl‐L‐trytophanamide. The present study is an attempt to elucidate the mechanism by which Br‐ induces these effects. The results obtained indicate that the initial event involves an interaction between the fluorescent state and Br‐ to promote the formation of a long‐lived radical precursor that may be the triplet. It is shown that all of the Br‐‐induced neutral and cation radical formation originate from this long‐lived state. Furthermore, it was found that the mechanism of radical production from the Br‐‐induced long‐lived precursor does not involve hydrated electron formation.
Systematic functionalization of perfluoroaryl azides with chelating agents capable of complexing
transition metals produces a new class of bifunctional photolabile chelating agents (BFPCAs). The
strategy to shield the azide functionality from the electronic and steric influence of the electron-rich metal Pd through ester and amide bridges raised CH insertion efficiency to unprecedented
levels (>92%) in a model solvent (cyclohexane). In contrast, perfluoroaryl azides attached to
chelating agents via hydrazones show no significant CH insertion in cyclohexane upon photolysis.
Measurements of the lifetimes of the singlet nitrenes derived from these agents by flash photolysis
techniques correlate well with the efficiency of CH insertion by demonstrating longer lifetimes
(10−50 times) for singlet nitrenes derived from azidotetrafluorinated esters and amides compared
with the related hydrazones, which failed to yield significant CH insertion. A representative BFPCA
12 is chelated to diagnostic radionuclide 99mTc and covalently attached to human serum albumin
via photochemical activation extending the favorable bimolecular insertion characteristics of BFPCA
to tracer level concentrations in buffer conditions. Flash photolysis experiments correlate singlet
nitrene lifetimes with the efficiency of intermolecular insertion reactions. This work provides new
photo-cross-linking technology, useful in radiodiagnostics and radiotherapy in nuclear medicine.
The efficiency of photolabeling of HSA and IgG with [14C]methyl 4-azido-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzoate has been studied using size exclusion chromatography in conjunction with liquid scintillation counting. Labeling efficiencies of 78% for HSA and 82% for IgG have been determined. The extent of bond insertion into proteins exceeds the C-H insertion efficiency in cyclohexane with less wastage into anilinium and azo side products. These results suggest that the photoprobe accesses hydrophobic regions of both proteins prior to photolysis.
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