EPR study of the toxicological effects of gas-phase cigarette smoke and the protective effects of grape seed extract on the mitochondrial membrane

Electron paramagnetic resonance spin trapping and spin labeling techniques were used to study the effects of grape seed extract on the biophysical propertiers of the mitochondrial membrane exposed to gas-phase cigarette smoke. The spin trapping results indicated that grape seed extract can effectively scavenge free radicals in cigarette smoke and the lipid free radicals generated from the lipid peroxidation of mitochondrial membrane caused by gas-phase cigarette smoke. The spin labeling results showed that grape seed extract can protect the mitochondrial membrane from the toxicological damage caused by gas-phase cigarette smoke.     

脉冲辐解和快速反应动力学研究

介绍了一台自行研制的微秒级脉冲辐解装置，及其对一些自由基的形成及衰减动力学研究． A microsecond pulse radiolysis system in Beijing Normal University is reported in this paper. Several formation and decay kinetics of radicals were studied.     

卷烟烟气中活性自由基的自旋捕获ESR研究

卷烟烟气中的瞬态自由基对人体健康是相当有害的，而检测活性自由基最常用的方法是自旋捕获方法. 本研究中使用高效新型捕捉剂DEPMPO能够直接在水相中捕捉到烷基自由基与羟基自由基，并未发现烷氧自由基加合物. 考虑到DEPMPO对活性自由基的捕捉能力和加合物ESR谱图解析特征性都优于PBN与DMPO，且在有机溶剂中溶解较多的氧分子. 因此认为以往文献中所捕获的烷氧自由基来源于烷基自由基氧化后的次级自由基产物.     

二苯甲酮与烃的光化夺氢反应中产生的活泼自由基的ESR研究

本文用具立体阻碍的自旋捕捉剂2,4,6-三-特丁基亚硝基苯(TBN)与ESR相结合的方法,研究了十种烷烃及四种芳烃与二苯甲酮光化夺氢反应中产生的活泼自由基。结果表明,R₃R₂R₁Ċ和TBN形成烷氧苯胺自由基加合物。R-ĊH-R'与TBN形成烷氧苯胺自由基加合物和氮氧自由基加合物。TBN可用于区分有、无空间位阻的烷烃,芳烃自由基。自旋加合物的ESR波谱可表明自由基中未偶电子所在碳原子附近的有效质子数目。     

Jahn—Teller coupling in the [Xtilde] 2E ground states of the CF3O and CF3S radicals

The Jahn—Teller and spin—orbit coupling in the ground states of the CF₃O and CF₃S radicals have been investigated experimentally by dispersed fluorescence spectroscopy. These spectra are analysed using a theoretical model that simultaneously includes spin—orbit coupling and multimode Jahn—Teller coupling, both linear and quadratic. We find that in each of these radicals a moderate linear Jahn—Teller effect exists in ν₆, with a much smaller coupling in ν₅. These results are compared and contrasted with those for the related radicals CH₃O and CH₃S. The experimental data and theoretical analyses of these four radicals represent the most thorough investigations to date of the combined effects of spin—orbit and Jahn—Teller coupling.     

ESR study on scavenging effect of nicotine on free radicals

Smokers have less risk to catch degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease that are both correlated with enhanced oxidative stress. The scavenging effect of nicotine on free radicals was investigated by electron spin resonance techniques. It was found that the scavenging effect of nicotine on hydroxyl radicals and superoxide free radicals was higher than that of vitamin C. It was also found that nicotine could scavenge free radicals in gas-phase cigarette smoke. The data indicate that nicotine may be a potential antioxidant.     

Spin Exchange Between Charged Paramagnetic Particles in Dilute Solutions

Kinetic equations for the spin density matrix which take into account binary collisions and a method of calculating the spin exchange effective radius have been generalized to the case of dilute solutions of charged paramagnetic particles. The effective radius of the spin exchange and rate constant of the bimolecular spin exchange between charged paramagnetic particles in solutions have been calculated numerically. Calculations have been performed under the assumption that the exchange interaction is isotropic and decays exponentially with the increase in the distance between radicals, and the solution has a given dielectric permittivity and Debye screening radius. Dependences of the spin exchange rate constant on the mutual diffusion coefficient, exchange and electrostatic interactions parameters have been found numerically. The theory has been applied to experimental results taken from the literature. The rate constant of the spin exchange between radicals of like charge found from the experiment and calculated within the developed theory are in good qualitative agreement .     

醛类的光分解与光氧化初级过程的ESR研究 取代苯甲醛的研究

本文采用自由基捕捉技术与ESR相结合的方法,研究了14种芳香醛的紫外光解及光氧化的初过程,结果表明:1.10种取代芳香醛的光解中主要活性自由基为芳酰基ϕĊO。2.光氧化初级过程(即引发过程)与光解所产生之自由基相同。但光氧化中自由基积累速度比光解为快,因此肯定由于氧参与了自由基的引发,从而加速其进程。3.有羟基取代的芳香醛,未检出自由基。     

煤的ESR波谱研究

利用JES-FE1XG型电子自旋共振波谱仪,系统地研究了褐煤与风化烟煤的ESR波谱,褐煤与风化烟煤中存在大量稳定的自由基,从褐煤到烟煤,随着煤化作用的加强,ESR波谱的吸收峰变窄,风化使烟煤的自旋浓度明显下降,这将为判断煤是否风化提出又一定量判据,其原因可能是由于风化使煤的局部大分子遭到破坏,从而影响π电子自由基的稳定性.     

ESR自旋捕集技术的发展和在生物医学研究中的应用

ESR是研究自由基最直接和最有效的技术,但是这些自由基必须是相对稳定的,而且要达到一定浓度才能用ESR技术检测和研究. 而生物体系中产生的自由基大部分是不稳定的,这是常规ESR波谱仪无法检测的. 为了克服ESR技术的这一局限性,发展了自旋捕集技术,这是目前研究生物和医学体系中活泼自由基应用最多也是最成功的方法, 每年都有新的自旋捕集剂合成和大量在生物医学应用的报道,为自由基生物医学的研究和发展做出了巨大贡献.  作者建立和发展了捕捉超氧阴离子自由基、羟基自由基、脂质过氧化产生的脂类自由基、一氧化氮自由基和单线态氧及一氧化氮和氧自由基同时检测技术. 利用这些技术开展了细胞、组织产生自由基机理,天然抗氧化剂的筛选及一些重大疾病如炎症、心脏病、老年痴呆症、帕金森综合症,中风,辐射损伤,蛋白质氧化,植物光合系统中产生活性自由基和植物的发病机理研究中的应用,取得了一系列研究结果.     

Recombination Prolonged Luminescence of Indole and Tryptophan in a Solution at Room Temperature

Prolonged luminescence of tryptophan and indole in liquid solutions of different polarity has been registered in a microsecond time-scale at room temperature; by nature it differs from phosphorescence or delayed fluorescence of P and E types. The data presented suggest that the observed prolonged luminescence is caused by recombination of the radicals formed upon UV irradiation of indole chromophores by laser pulses.     

关于N-苯基-萘胺的光分解过程

采用ESR方法研究了α-和β-N-苯基取代萘胺在苯溶液中的分解过程及其反应中间体.结果表明,有三种自由基被检测到,即H,C₁₀H·₇和C₆H·₅(H)N·自由基.其中值得注意的是萘自由基的生成,这意味着在一定的光解条件下,苯基萘胺分子中的C-N键可发生断裂,萘基可从氮原子上断裂下来.同时,通过调节自旋捕捉剂的浓度与添加光敏剂,可以明显地改变三种自旋捕获物的相对生成比例,借此得到三种自由基结构与光稳定性的信息.此外,本文还结合量子化学的计算讨论了此光解过程各种自由基生成的可能性.     

The exploration of magnetic photo-excited states using organometallic spin couplers based on the silole ring

The photoexcited states of the 1,1-dimethyl-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsilole (TPS) and of the bis(tertiobutylnitroxide)-substituted TPS (TPS-TNO) have been studied using optical and time-resolved electron spin resonance (TRESR) spectroscopic methods. The TPS-TNO was designed and synthesized with in mind to achieve the photo-induced spin alignment which has been observed with anthracene-based radicals [3] and [4]. Although a photoexcited triplet state has been characterized for the TPS coupler, TPS-TNO did not show any signal arising from photoexcited states. This result may come from a very short lifetime of the photoexcited high spin states as a result of the attachment of radicals to TPS or from the very low efficiency of the intersystem crossing.     

ESR Study on Scavenging Effect of Squalene on Free Radicals in Mainstream Cigarette Smoke

Radicals in mainstream cigarette smoke (MCS) have been proposed to contribute to the harm caused by cigarette smoking. In the present study, we used natural antioxidant, squalene, to treat cigarette filters and tobacco for scavenging gas- and particulate-phase free radicals in MCS. The scavenging activities of cigarette filter and tobacco containing squalene against gas and particulate-phase free radicals were detected and quantified using spin-trapping or directly electron spin resonance spectroscopy method. The results revealed that squalene could significantly scavenge gas- and particulate-phase free radicals in MCS in a dose-dependent manner. The radical-scavenging activity of cigarette filter treatment was higher than that of tobacco treatment, irrespective of either gas-phase free radicals, or particulate-phase free radicals in MCS. Among them, 3 mg squalene/filter treatment showed that the highest scavenging effects against gas- and particulate-phase free radicals were 35.9 and 35.4%, respectively. The use of squalene as potential scavenger for reducing free radicals in cigarette smoke is discussed.     

Electron spin relaxation by spin-rotation interaction in benzoyl and other acyl type radicals

In various studies of the spin dynamics in radical pairs, benzoyl-type radicals have been one of the two paramagnetic pair species. Their electron spin relaxation has been assumed to be slow enough to be neglected in the data analysis. This assumption is checked by measuring the electron spin relaxation in a sequence of three acyl radicals (benzoyl, 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl and hexahydrobenzoyl) by time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. In contrast to the assumed slow relaxation, rather short spin-lattice relaxation times (100–400 ns) are found for benzoyl and 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl radicals from the decay of the integral initial electron polarization to thermal equilibrium at different temperatures and viscosities. The relaxation is induced by a spin-rotation coupling arising from two different types of radical movements: overall rotation of the whole radical and hindered internal rotation of the CO group. The predominant second contribution depends on the barrier of the internal rotation. The obtained results are well explained in the frame of Bull’s theory when using a modified rotational correlation time τ _J . The size of the spin-rotation coupling due to the internal CO group rotation in benzoyl radicals is estimated to be |C _α|=1510 MHz.     

Interaction of imidazoline- and imidazolidine-based nitroxides with chloroplasts

In this work, we investigated the interaction of a number of novel pH-sensitive spin probes (imidazoline- and imidazolidine-based nitroxides) with isolated chloroplasts. The light-induced changes in the electron paramagnetic resonance signals of these radicals are determined by several factors: ΔpH-driven accumulation of nitroxides inside the thylakoids, consumption (or evolution) of oxygen by chloroplasts, and irreversible loss of spin probe paramagnetism. A comparative study of these radicals characterized by different pK_a allowed us to conclude that these spin probes can be used as pH indicators for monitoring the intrathylakoid pH- and light-induced changes in oxygen concentration in chloroplast suspension.     

Saturation transfer EPR studies of slow rotational motion in membranes

Saturation transfer spectroscopy is a nonlinear electron paramagnetic resonance method for detecting rotational diffusion of nitroxide spin labels on the microsecond timescale or slower. Various results on spin-labeled biological membranes are reviewed here. These studies include those on lipid motions in gel-phase phospholipid bilayers, on the dynamics of lipid-protein interactions, and on the rotational diffusion of spin-labeled transmembrane proteins. Certain methodological aspects are also discussed.     

Spin concentration in a possible ESR dosimeter: An electron spin echo study on X-irradiated ammonium tartrate

Several single crystals and powder samples of ammonium tartrate, recently proposed as a possible ESR dosimeter, have been X-irradiated with different doses. The total radical concentration has been determined by quantitative cw ESR, by comparison with a standard. The samples have been studied by electron spin echo spectroscopy. The two-pulse echo decay has been obtained and simulated by a single exponential function for different values of the microwave power of the pulses and for different pulse lengths. The dependence of the phase memory time TM on the microwave power has been exploited to get information on the contribution of the instantaneous diffusion to spin dephasing. At room temperature in the range of radical concentrations of 10(18)-10(19) spins/cm3 the instantaneous diffusion is the dominant spin dephasing mechanism. The linear dependence of the instantaneous diffusion on the total concentration of the radicals is in agreement with the theory. From the latter result we conclude that the average radical-radical distance corresponds to a random distribution of the radicals in the matrix. A simple method of measuring the radical concentration by the ESE decays in powder samples of irradiated ammonium tartrate is described.     

A CW-EPR and ESEEM spectroscopic study of the dithiadiazolyl radicals p-XC6F4CNSSN (X = CN, Br)

Two dithiadiazolyl radicals, p-NCC₆F₄CNSSN and p-BrC₆F₄CNSSN, have recently been found to be paramagnetic in the solid state. While the β-phase of the first one exhibits spontaneous magnetization below 36 K, the second one shows a paramagnetic character in the solid state. The spin density distribution in these radicals is examined through continuous-wave electron paramagnetic resonance and electron spin echo envelope modulation spectroscopies. Hyperfine correlation sublevel spectroscopy provides information about the interaction of the unpaired spin with F and N nuclei. A signal coming from the interaction with Br nucleus is also detected. The superhyperfme coupling constants of the unpaired electron with the magnetic nuclei are obtained and values of the corresponding spin densities, ?_s and ?_σ - ?_π, can be estimated in the isolated radicals. Spin density distribution has also been calculated in both molecules with density functional theory, being in excellent agreement with those determined from the spectra. The spin density is mainly concentrated in the dithiadiazolyl ring, but some spin density is observed on the fluorinated aromatic rings. They also provide a strong basis to understand the differences of the magnetic behavior of both molecules in terms of their respective packing in the solid state.     

pH自旋探针分子的ESR波谱性质和量子化学研究─pH自旋探针应用研究之二

系统研究了咪唑类氮氧自由基作为pH自旋探针的ESR波谱特性．用量子化学方法AM1研究了pH自旋探针分子的几何结构、电子结构及电子自旋密度分布．aN理论值与实验结果基本一致．得到了pka值与电子密度关系曲线．指出了它们在生命科学中的应用前景．