Spectrophotometric study on minimizing bilirubin interference in an enzyme reagent mediated cholesterol reaction

A spectrophotometric study was carried out which describes the effect of the inclusion of potassium ferrocyanide into an enzyme reagent system as a protective device against the competitive interaction of bilirubin in the indicator reaction. A previously described system for depicting how bilirubin interacts competitively in a modified 4-aminoantipyrene-phenolic peroxidase-peroxide coupled reaction was used as a template to judge the effectiveness of the protective action. The results obtained indicate that the protection is not total, but that the close approximation may make this a worthwhile modification in procedure to consider for the determination of total, free, and/or high density lipoprotein cholesterol. At the same time it might be inferred that the interference of bilirubin can be diminished chemically for other oxidase-peroxidase coupled systems. A search for even better solutions to this interference problem may be possible. For us, this lead has pointed the way in other similar directions.In addition, this study reports on a preliminary investigation as to the site of coupling of phenolic compounds with 4-aminoantipyrene.     

Interference study on precipitating reagents used in a sensitive color reaction for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol determination

A spectrophotometric study was carried out which describes the effect of the inclusion of potassium ferrocyanide into an enzyme reagent system as a protective device against the competitive interaction of bilirubin in the indicator reaction. A previously described system for depicting how bilirubin interacts competitively in a modified 4-aminoantipyrene-phenolic peroxidase-peroxide coupled reaction was used as a template to judge the effectiveness of the protective action. The results obtained indicate that the protection is not total, but that the close approximation may make this a worthwhile modification in procedure to consider for the determination of total, free, and/or high density lipoprotein cholesterol. At the same time it might be inferred that the interference of bilirubin can be diminished chemically for other oxidase-peroxidase coupled systems. A search for even better solutions to this interference problem may be possible. For us, this lead has pointed the way in other similar directions.In addition, this study reports on a preliminary investigation as to the site of coupling of phenolic compounds with 4-aminoantipyrene.     

A spectrophotometric study on the interaction of hemoglobin in a diazo coupling reaction of neonatal bilirubin: II. Interaction of bilirubin and hemoglobin in the Jendrassik-Grof diazo coupling reagents

The foregoing experiments have shown some of the difficulties in establishing a mechanism of action for hemoglobin in diazo coupling reactions for bilirubin. All attempts to understand the reaction are complicated by a variety of factors, including the diversity of the reactions generally referred to as Jendrassik-Grof, the heterogeneity of the reaction matrix, and the potential multiple interactions of any generated intermediate or product with other constituents present in the diazo reagents. Probing of the reaction mechanism with an enzyme such as catalase seems to be of questionable value at this point. Because of the unusually high concentrations of enzyme required to inhibit azobilirubin fading, there is a greater possibility for side reactions in the diazo media. The possibility of the occurrence of a Fenton reaction with the spontaneous generation of a superoxide ion or OH radical by a chelated ferrous species cannot be conclusively defined from the several experiments described. However, a hint involving peroxide formation is suggested by the catalase and SOD experiments.     

A spectrophotometric study on the interaction of hemoglobin in a diazo coupling reaction of neonatal bilirubin: I. Interaction of bilirubin and hemoglobin in the Jendrassik-Grof diazo blank reagents

Studies of difference spectra have revealed a dynamic interaction of bilirubin and hemoglobin in the alkaline Jendrassik-Grof diazo blank reagent. The similarity obtained for difference spectra with respect to shape and peak maxima and peak minima of various ferriprotoporphyrin-containing biomolecules, such as hemin, methemoglobin, cyanmethemoglobin, and catalase implicated ferriprotoporphyrin in this interactive process. Further time studies of these mixtures seem to suggest an oxidation-reduction type of reaction, resulting in the formation of ferroprotoporphyrin and presumably the concomitant oxidation of bilirubin.     

Interesting interferences in a direct serum creatinine reaction

A spectrophotometric study on a direct picric acid reaction for creatinine in severely jaundiced serums is described. A problem appears to be caused by the oxidation of bilirubin which minimizes rising absorbance when using continuous measurement. Simple examples of interferences with the kinetic mode are shown along with the hitherto unreported interference of the drug, Cephalothin, which also undergoes a picric acid reaction. A procedure in which a delta absorbance is obtained after decolorization of the Jaffé complex by acidification is shown as one available means for obviating the bilirubin effect. However, the theory that Jaffé-reactive interferences do not decolorize with the same acid treatment is not totally applicable when the drug, Cephalothin, is present.     

Spectrophotometric study of bilirubin and hemoglobin interactions in several hydrogen peroxide generating procedures

The interference effects of bilirubin and hemoglobin have been described for the peroxidase-hydrogen peroxide oxidation of a hydrogen donor and the catalase-hydrogen peroxide oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde. A competition between bilirubin and the intended hydrogen donor is shown for the substitute analyte, hydrogen peroxide, with a resultant diminution of color due to the loss of intended reaction. No inhibition of peroxidase action appears to take place; its action when complexed with hydrogen peroxide is directed toward the competing hydrogen donor, bilirubin. The final color measured appeared to be partially compensatory, that is the sum of intended color plus the color of residual bilirubin. The subtraction of a serum blank representing a static system will result in a lowered value and a larger error. Hemoglobin, with its strong Soret band can, if its concentration is excessive, cause a major interference in reactions such as the Hantzsch reaction which result in overlapping bands at the reaction wavelength. Samples which are both hemolyzed and jaundiced would present as formidable blanking problems. Further studies on bilirubin and its glucuronide and their individual effect on the peroxidase-peroxide reaction are presently in progress.     

Cetyltrimethylammonium dichromate: a mild oxidant for coupling amines and thiols

A novel lipopathic oxidizing agent, cetyltrimethylammonium dichromate, was used for coupling aromatic amines and thiols to yield the corresponding diazo compounds and disulfides, respectively.     

偶合反应伏安酶联免疫分析测定人血清乙型肝炎E抗体的研究

本文提出用竞争性抑制偶合反应伏安酶联免疫分析法测定人血清乙型肝炎Ｅ抗体（ＨＢｅＡｂ）方法基于酶标ＨＢｅＡｂ辣根过氧化物酶（ＨＲＰ）催化Ｈ２Ｏ２氧化邻联甲苯胺（ＯＴ）的反应与邻联甲苯胺氧化产物在电极上的还原反应相偶合，测定标记在ＨＢｅＡｂ上ＨＲＰ量，以求得抑制免疫反应的乙型肝炎Ｅ抗体含量本法测定酶标ＨＢｅＡｂＨＲＰ及ＨＢｅＡｂ的灵敏度均高于经典的ＥＬＩＳＡ光度法方法用于病人血清样品分析，与ＥＬＩＳＡ光度法对照，其相关性很好     

测定可见光区分光光度系组成的新方法

本文报道一种测定二元分光光度系组成的新方法,原理新颖,为作者首创,采用双波长分光光度技术消除显色产物的影响,直接测定与显色剂平衡浓度相对应的吸光度,通过简单的计算即可求得产物组成。     

Bilirubin and hemoglobin interferences in direct colorimetric cholesterol reactions using enzyme reagents

The interferences of bilirubin and hemoglobin were tested in two cholesterol procedures in which enzymes were used as chemical reagents. Both procedures used similar approaches with cholesterol esterase to free cholesterol from its esters and cholesterol oxidase to generate hydrogen peroxide from the total free cholesterol resulting. From that common start, one procedure then used catalase to generate formaldehyde from methanol and the peroxide produced from cholesterol, and the formaldehyde was then reacted with acetylacetone to produce a yellow chromogen, while the other procedure used peroxidase to catalyze a reaction directly between peroxide and 4-aminoantipyrine plus phenol to generate a pink chromogen. Bilirubin and hemoglobin were shown to produce some interference by reacting competitively with peroxide in both systems and by contributing residual absorbance at the wavelengths of measurement of each of the chromogens. Since bilirubin showed a spectral change, static blanking with sample blanks caused overcorrections. However, the elimination of a sample blank for either procedure could result in a favorable compensating error because the residual color of bilirubin could substitute in part at least for the lost reactivity of the peroxide used up in reaction with the bilirubin of the sample.     

On the mechanism of Pd(0)-catalyzed coupling of propargylic carbonates with N-tosylhydrazones: density functional theory survey

In this article, we have theoretically investigated the possible reaction mechanisms for Pd(0)-catalyzed coupling of propargylic carbonates with N-tosylhydrazones. The ωb97X-D method and C-PCM solvent model are used to describe the reaction processes. After the formation of allenylpalladium through C–O bond cleavage from propargylic carbonates, both decarboxylation and ligand exchange processes are explored. Then, depending on different conditions, we considered three possible types of reaction mechanisms, carbene insertion triggered by N₂ release, C–C coupling reactions without N₂ release, and C–C coupling reactions via the out-sphere attack of diazo compound. Our results indicate that it is favorable to undergo the carbene insertion into allenylpalladium after ligand exchange with diazo compound, which is partially agreement with the experimental suggestions. Although the decarboxylation is more difficult than ligand exchange, the reaction rate could be limited by Pd-catalyzed N₂ dissociation from diazo compound. Additionally, it should be essential to select DFT-D method to describe this reaction.     

Bilirubin determination in gallstones

Summary The determination of bilirubin in gallstones is carried out by means of several methods, but most frequently by spectrophotometric determination of azobilirubin. We found that most of the methods were not applicable to bilirubin determination in certain types of gallstones. Thus, we developed a simple and suitable method for bilirubin determination applicable to all gallstone specimens. Based on direct spectrophotometric measurements of chloroform solution of bilirubin or gallstone extracts, our method was found to be sensitive enough to determine small amounts as well as high contents of bilirubin in gallstones. Other gallstone components were of no influence on the assay; thus this method proved to be superior to azobilirubin or other assays.     

New Methods of Preparative Organic Chemistry. Transfer of Diazo Groups

When an arenesulfonyl azide, particularly p-toluenesulfonyl azide, reacts, in the presence of a base, with a compound containing an active methylene group, the two hydrogen atoms of the active methylene group are replaced by a diazo group to form a diazo compound and an arenesulfonamide. The method may be used for the synthesis of the diazo derivatives of cyclopentadienes, cyclohexadienes, 1,3-dicarbonyl, 1,3-disulfonyl, and 1,3-ketosulfonyl compounds, ketones, carbonic acid esters, and β-iminoketones. Secondary reactions can lead to azo compounds and heterocycles such as 1,2,3-triazoles, 1,2,3-thiadiazoles, and pyrazolin-4-ones. Azidinium salts react in the same way, but in this case an acidic reaction medium is necessary, a fact that is sometimes advantageous.     

Spectrophotometric study of influences on the direct ferric perchlorate method for the determination of serum cholesterol

A spectrophotometric study of several influences on a direct colorimetric determination of serum cholesterol has been described. Interferences of in vitro and in vivo types were considered, and it was found that certain compounds such as bromide, uracils, and bilirubin could exert both positive and negative interfering influences on the reaction of ferric perchlorate with cholesterol in an ethyl acetate-ethanol-sulfuric acid medium. Some interferences such as bilirubin are noncompeting side reactions which are absolute in their interference capabilities, while others such as the uracils and bromide have an entirely different influence. In the latter circumstance, the fine structures of spectra are altered by a nonadditive phenomenon of the reactant and hyperchromic (bromide), and hypochromic (uracils) effects take place which appear to result in relative rather than absolute errors.     

Scales of Nucleophilicity and Electrophilicity: A System for Ordering Polar Organic and Organometallic Reactions

Contrary to widely held opinion, for many reactions in organic and organometallic chemistry it is possible to define nucleophilicity and electrophilicity parameters that are independent of the reaction partners. This phenomenon, discovered by Ritchie during the early 1970s for reactions of highly stabilized carbenium and diazonium ions with n-nucleophiles, also occurs with reactions of carbenium ions with aliphatic and aromatic π-electron systems and in hydride transfer reactions. With the aid of the scales of nucleophilicity and electrophilicity set out here, which extend over eighteen orders of magnitude, forecasts can be made about the feasibility and rate of a given CC bond formation, ionic reduction, or diazo coupling. Linkage with the reactivity scales of Ritchie and Sweigart/Kane-Maguire enables a unified treatment of a large number of polar reactions.     

联苯胺-H_2O_2-HRP伏安酶联免疫分析体系测定植物病毒TMV和TRSV

提出了联苯胺－Ｈ２Ｏ２－辣根过氧化物酶（ＨＲＰ）伏安酶联免疫分析体系测定植物病毒烟草花叶病毒（ＴＭＶ）和烟草环斑病毒（ＴＲＳＶ）的新方法。ＨＲＰ标记的羊抗兔酶标记抗体ＩｇＧ－ＨＲＰ可以催化Ｈ２Ｏ２氧化联苯胺的反应,其氧化产物在Ｂｒｉｔｏｎ－Ｒｏｂｉｎｓｏｎ（ＢＲ）缓冲溶液中在－０．６２Ｖ（ＳＣＥ）左右产生灵敏的线性扫描二阶导数伏安峰,可以测定ＩｇＧ－ＨＲＰ。根据ＩｇＧ－ＨＲＰ与植物病毒及其抗血清的免疫反应,可以间接测定植物病毒。本法测定ＴＭＶ的检出限为０．２５ｎｇ／ｍＬ,线性范围为０．２５～５０００ｎｇ／ｍＬ;测定ＴＲＳＶ的检出限为１．５ｎｇ／ｍＬ,线性范围为１．５～３０００ｎｇ／ｍＬ;测定ＴＭＶ烟草病叶澄清液的最高稀释比为１∶１００００。检测灵敏度高于酶联免疫吸附显色光度法（ＥＬＩＳＡ）     

Synthesis of functionalized iodoalkenes using a multicomponent reaction triggered by electrophilic iodination of alkenyldiazoacetates

Diazo compounds are frequently used as precursors of metal carbenoids and act as soft nucleophiles even without the use of metal catalysts. The resulting diazonium species may also be trapped by various nucleophiles. The introduction of an iodine functionality applicable for the coupling reaction into an alkenyl diazo compound, however, has not been reported. We developed iodoalkoxylation reactions of alkenyl diazoacetates using an electrophilic iodinating reagent and oxygen nucleophile. This catalyst-free multicomponent reaction proceeded regioselectively, furnishing trisubstituted vinyl iodides in 31%–71% yield. The synthesized iodoalkenes were converted into the corresponding olefins with various functionalities in good yield via Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions with arylboronic acids under palladium catalysis to demonstrate the synthetic utility of the developed reaction sequence.     

Total parenteral nutrition turbidity and clearing of serum for assay purposes

Parenteral nutrition such as Liposyn III when introduced into patients causes their serum to become milky thereby creating potentially aberrant analyses when such a medium is subjected to spectrophotometric investigation during the time period prior to the metabolic removal of the intravenously injected triglycerides. However, it is possible to alter chemical reagents by the introduction of enzymatic clearing materials, which rapidly through hydrolytic action by lipases convert the offending triglycerides to glycerol and non-esterified fatty acids. The latter as potential soap formers with calcium and magnesium can be sequentially and quickly incorporated into transparent guest-host complexes with alpha cyclodextrin serving as the host, thus removing them as possible secondary sources of turbidity. Representative procedures incorporating the lipase-alpha cyclodextrin constituents into their reagents thus allow rapid clearing of the medium followed by spectrophotometric measurement during the clarified window of reaction without any change in the modified procedure. Additionally and importantly there is no interference from the addition of the clarifying ingredients added to the reagents. Commonly needed high volume tests such as hemoglobin, glucose, calcium, bilirubin, cholesterol and triglycerides are described as examples in which the clarifying processes are included in this novel analytical technology. No changes in the original methodologies are involved and no preliminary treatments are necessary for these important tests in which the interfering light-scattering properties of a sample are eliminated when optical measurement takes place even during the peak levels of parenteral nutrition necessarily introduced into any patient either adult or neonatal. These procedures involving enzymatic degradation of the triglycerides causing the primary turbidity sequenced to guest-host complexation of liberated fatty acids, the potential secondary turbidity, are effective for clarification of serum samples during measurement. This technology holds whether the source of the hypertriglyceridemia is parenteral nutrition or the pathological presence of excessive triglycerides as in diabetes.     

Cholesterol study: Reaction plateau and kinetic determinations

A study has been described of a comparison between reaction plateaus and kinetic modes for measuring cholesterol. A similar investigation of bilirubin reactions under the same procedural conditions was also carried out because this compound is a major interference which is frequently encountered in abnormal serums. The findings indicate that bilirubin is a more sensitive reactant than cholesterol by LB reaction but that its effect as an interference can be lessened by a kinetic approach providing that the effect of H₂O on reaction velocity and molar absorptivity can be minimized. An iron reaction even though more sensitive proved less workable in the kinetic mode owing to reaction velocity and the presence of air bubbles. However, its reaction plateau characteristics were superior to the LB reaction because of a favorable ratio of colors generated for the two reacting constituents. Based on this study, it is predictable that a kinetic approach is quite workable for the LB reaction and could be made more workable for the iron reaction if, in the latter case, conditions perhaps such as temperature and reaction media, could be altered to slow the rate of color formation.