Issue 6, 2006
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Hydrogen abstraction from neurotransmitters by active oxygen species facilitated by intramolecular hydrogen bonding in the radical intermediates

Kei Ohkubo,a   Yoshihiko Moro-oka*b  and  Shunichi Fukuzumi*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, SORST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
E-mail: fukuzumi@chem.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
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Tel: +81-6-6879-7368

b College of Community Development, Tokiwa University, Miwa, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8585, Japan

Abstract

The reactivity of neurotransmitters toward hydrogen abstraction by an active oxygen species (the cumylperoxyl radical) is comparable to that of a strong antioxidant such as catechin due to the strong intramolecular hydrogen bonding, which has been successfully detected by ESR.

Graphical abstract: Hydrogen abstraction from neurotransmitters by active oxygen species facilitated by intramolecular hydrogen bonding in the radical intermediates

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B600111D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Jan 2006
Accepted
30 Jan 2006
First published
10 Feb 2006

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2006,4, 999-1001

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Hydrogen abstraction from neurotransmitters by active oxygen species facilitated by intramolecular hydrogen bonding in the radical intermediates

K. Ohkubo, Y. Moro-oka and S. Fukuzumi, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2006, 4, 999 DOI: 10.1039/B600111D

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