ABSTRACT
The 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in intact erythrocytes of Nigerian patients, in particular with regard to haemoglobin genotypes and G6PD* activity was studied. The G6PD activity of the erythrocyte did not affect the oxidative transformation of testosterone to androstenedione and of oestradiol to oestrone. The reduction (reverse transformation) was inhibited in G6PD-deficient erythrocytes but this inhibition was offset by the addition of 0.025 m glucose to the incubation medium. The per cent oxidation transformation of testosterone was higher in Hb-AA than in Hb-SS erythrocytes. It is suggested that the differences may be a result of either lower enzyme activity in the Hb-SS erythrocytes or of differences in the uptake and possibly binding of sex steroids by intact Hb-SS and Hb-AA erythrocytes.
The oxidations of the title perchlorates, bearing the sterically diverse 6'-substituents (H, Me, Et, i-Pr, n-Bu, t-Bu and Ph) in two series with the same 4-substituents (Ph and t-Bu) lead to pairs of isomeric 3',5-disubstituted (Z)-1'-phenyl-3'-(2-phenylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-3-yl)prop-2'- en-1'-ones and 3,6'-disubstituted [5-phenyl-1-(6'-pyridin-2'-yl)-1H-pyrrol-2-yl](phenyl)methanones except where the both variable substituents are t-Bu and then only pyrrolic product is formed. Considering steric interactions of the substituents in some intermediate and/or transition states a multistep mechanism for the oxidative transformation is proposed and supported by model PM3-PECI calculations of some radical intermediates.
Using water as the only solvent for the oxidation of alcohols and organic halides, a complete solventless process for the preparation of water immiscible aldehydes has been developed.
Co‐Oxidative Transformation of Piperine to Piperonal and 3,4‐Methylenedioxycinnamaldehyde by a Lipoxygenase from
Pleurotus sapidus
