The decomposition of peroxynitrite does not yield nitroxyl anion and singlet oxygen
AUTOR(ES)
Merényi, Gábor
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
In a recent article [Khan, A. U., Kovacic, D., Kolbanovsky, A., Desai, M., Frenkel, K. & Geacintov, N. E. (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 2984–2989], the authors claimed that ONOO−, after protonation to ONOOH, decomposes into 1HNO and 1O2 according to a spin-conserved unimolecular mechanism. This claim was based partially on their observation that nitrosylhemoglobin is formed via the reaction of peroxynitrite with methemoglobin at neutral pH. However, thermochemical considerations show that the yields of 1O2 and 1HNO are about 23 orders of magnitude lower than those of ⋅NO2 and ⋅OH, which are formed via the homolysis of ONOOH. We also show that methemoglobin does not form with peroxynitrite any spectrally detectable product, but with contaminations of nitrite and H2O2 present in the peroxynitrite sample. Thus, there is no need to modify the present view of the mechanism of ONOOH decomposition, according to which initial homolysis into a radical pair, [ONO⋅ ⋅OH]cage, is followed by the diffusion of about 30% of the radicals out of the cage, while the rest recombines to nitric acid in the solvent cage.
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