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SUBMITTER: Zhao YL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2519156 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhao Yi-Lei YL McCarren Patrick R PR Houk K N KN Choi Bo Yoon BY Toone Eric J EJ
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20050801 31
The decomposition of S-nitrosothiols (RSNO) in solution under oxidative conditions is significantly faster than can be accounted for by homolysis of the S-N bond. Here we propose a cationic chain mechanism in which nitrosation of nitrosothiol produces a nitrosated cation that, in turn, reacts with a second nitrosothiol to produce nitrosated disulfide and the NO dimer. The nitrosated disulfide acts as a source of nitrosonium for nitrosothiol nitrosation, completing the catalytic cycle. The mechan ...[more]