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Isomer effects in fragmentation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

2015

We have observed significant differences in the fragmentation patterns of isomeric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) cations following collisions with helium atoms at center-of-mass energies around 100 eV. This is in contrast to the situation at other collision energies or in photo-absorption experiments where isomeric effects are very weak and where the lowest-energy dissociation channels (H- and C2H2-loss) domihate in statistical fragmentation processes. In the 100 eV range, non-statistical fragmentation also competes and is uniquely linked to losses of single carbon atoms (CHx-losses). We find that such CHx-losses are correlated with the ionic ground state energy within a given group…

Novel Alkylanthracenes Synthesis, Reductive Alkylation, and Reductive Polymerization

1988

A series of novel substituted anthracenes has been prepared which carry two or four n-alkyl groups at C-2 and C-3 (C-6 and C-7). The route taken includes the synthesis of novel 2,3-dialkylbutadienes, their Diels-Alder reaction with 1,4-benzo- or 1,4-naphthoquinone, the dehydrogenation of the adducts, and the reduction of the anthraquinones. The substituted anthracenes are submitted to reduction and reductive alkylation in ethereal solvents and in liquid ammonia to yield 9,10-dialkyl-substituted 9,10-dihydroanthracenes. A modification of the reductive alkylation, i.e. the introduction of 1,n-dihaloalkanes as electrophiles, provides polymeric chains, in which dihydroanthracene moieties are li…

A New ZnIITweezer Pyridine-Naphthalene System - An Off-On-Off System Working in a Biological pH Window

2005

Their basic idea consisted of the connec-tion of an amine to a fluorophoric anthracene unit on oneside and to a pyridine moiety on the other. At acidic pHvalues the amino and the pyridine groups are protonatedand a photoinduced electron transfer (PET) occurs fromthe π-π* excited state of the anthracene to the protonatedpyridinium unit, leading to quenching of the fluorescence.However, at high pH values, where the amino group is notprotonated, PET alternatively takes place from the aminelone pair to the same excited state of the fluorophore, yield-ing the same inhibitory effect on the fluorescence. Betweenthese two pH values, there is a pH window where PET doesnot take place and fluorescence…

Synthesis of oligomeric chains with 9,10‐dihydroanthracene units by carbanion alkylation

1988

Deprotonation of 9,10-dihydroanthracene (2) affords the monoanion 6 which is subjected to alkylation reactions with mono and bifunctional electrophiles. Crucial intermediates in syntheses using 6 are 9-(3-bromopropyl)-9,10-dihydroanthracene (7) and 1,3-bis(9,10-dihydro-9-anthryl)propane (9) since they provide access to linear oligomers in which 9,10-dihydroanthracene units are linked by trimethylene groups. The alkylation processes of these species can be extended to the structurally related polymer 4. The regio- and stereoselectivity of the alkylation reactions are investigated by 1H- and 13C-NMR spectroscopy. Oligomere Ketten mit 9,10-Dihydroanthracen-Einheiten durch Carbanionalkylierung …

Unexpected DNA damage caused by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons under standard laboratory conditions

2007

Abstract The genotoxicity of 15 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons was determined with the alkaline version of the comet assay employing V79 lung fibroblasts of the Chinese hamster as target cells. These cells lack the enzymes necessary to convert PAHs to DNA-binding metabolites. Surprisingly, 11 PAHs, i.e., benzo[ a ]pyrene (BaP), benz[ a ]anthracene, 7,12-dimethylbenz[ a ]anthracene, 3-methylcholanthrene, fluoranthene, anthanthrene, 11 H -benzo[ b ]fluorene, dibenz[ a,h ]anthracene, pyrene, benzo[ ghi ]perylene and benzo[ e ]pyrene caused DNA strand breaks even without external metabolic activation, while naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene and naphthacene were inactive. When the comet as…

Neuroendocrine Modulation of IL-27 in Macrophages

2017

Abstract Heterodimeric IL-27 (p28/EBV-induced gene 3) is an important member of the IL-6/IL-12 cytokine family. IL-27 is predominantly synthesized by mononuclear phagocytes and exerts immunoregulatory functional activities on lymphocytic and nonlymphocytic cells during infection, autoimmunity or neoplasms. There is a great body of evidence on the bidirectional interplay between the autonomic nervous system and immune responses during inflammatory disorders, but so far IL-27 has not been defined as a part of these multifaceted neuroendocrine networks. In this study, we describe the role of catecholamines (as mediators of the sympathetic nervous system) related to IL-27 production in primary …

Ablation of c-FLIP in hepatocytes enhances death-receptor mediated apoptosis and toxic liver injury in vivo

2010

Background & Aims Apoptosis is crucially involved in acute and chronic liver injury, including viral, cholestatic, toxic, and metabolic liver disease. Additionally, dysregulation of apoptosis signaling pathways has been implicated in hepatocarcinogenesis. The most prominent members of the apoptosis-mediating tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily are the TNF-R1 (CD120a) and the CD95 (Apo-1/Fas) receptor. Although extensively studied, the intracellular signaling events in hepatocytes are only incompletely understood. Methods To examine the role of the caspase-8 homolog cellular FLICE-inhibitory protein (c-FLIP) in liver injury, we generated mice with hepatocyte specific deletion of c-FLI…

Characterization of highly polar DNA adducts derived from dibenz[A,H]anthracene (DBA), 3,4-dihydroxy-3,4-dihydro-DBA, and 3,4,10,11-tetrahydroxy-3,4,…

1993

Two highly polar DNA adducts were found after metabolic activation of 3,4,10,11-tetrahydroxy-3,4,10,11-tetrahydrodibenz[ a,h]anthracene(DBA-3,4;10, 11-bisdiol) by liver microsomes isolated from male Sprague-Dawley rats pretreated with Aroclor 1254 in presence of calf thymus DNA. These DNA adducts could be assigned to the metabolites of dibenz[ a,h]anthracene (DBA), of 3R,4R,10R,11R-tetrahydroxy-3,4,10,11-tetrahydro-DBA and of 3R,4R,10S,US-tetrahydroxy-3,4,10,11-tetrahydro-DBA. DNA adducts derived from metabolites of 3S,4S,10S,11S-tetrahydroxy-3,4,10,11-tetrahydro-DBA were not found. These highly polar adducts also could be detected by reversed phase HPLC after incubation of dibenz[ a,h]ant…

Large differences in metabolic activation and inactivation of chemically closely related compounds: effects of pure enzymes and enzyme induction on t…

1981

Characterization of DNA adducts at the bay region of dibenz[a,h]anthracene formed in vitro

1993

Bay region diolepoxide-DNA adducts of dibenz[a,h]anthracene (DBA) formed in vitro were identified and their absolute stereochemistry was assigned. After activation of [5,12-14C]DBA with liver microsomes obtained from Aroclor 1254 treated male Sprague-Dawley rats in the presence of calf thymus DNA for 1 h, the amount of DNA adducts was found to be 9.9 +/- 2.4 pmol/mg DNA, calculated on the basis of the portion of radioactivity eluted from the HPLC reversed-phase column with a water/acetonitrile gradient. Bay region diolepoxide-DNA adducts represented 27.5% of radioactivity associated with DNA adducts. The absolute configuration of the various adducts was determined from the reaction of the (…