Search results for "Glyoxylic acid"

Interest of genotyping and phenotyping of drug-metabolizing enzymes for the interpretation of biological monitoring of exposure to styrene

2002

In the field of occupational and/or environmental toxicology, the measurement of specific metabolites in urine may serve to assess exposure to the parent compounds (biological monitoring of exposure). Styrene is one of the chemicals for which biological monitoring programs have been validated and implemented in environmental and occupational medicine. However, inter-individual differences in the urinary excretion exist both for the main end-products (mandelic acid and phenylglyoxylic acid) and for its specific mercapturic acids (phenylhydroxyethylmercapturic acids, PHEMA). This limits to a certain extent the use of these metabolites for an accurate assessment of styrene exposure. In a group…

Light-induced opening and closing of the intramolecular hydrogen bond in glyoxylic acid.

2013

The isomerization process of glyoxylic acid (GA) conformers and their complexes with a water molecule were studied in a low temperature argon matrix. The research target was to understand how starting conformation and complexation affects the near-IR (NIR) induced conformer interconversion. The most stable GA conformer (Tc) is characterized by an intramolecular hydrogen bond, and it is found to undergo light-induced conformer interconversion slower than the open (Tt) conformer. Upon complexation with water, the isomerization processes slow down in the case of the Tc conformer, whereas for the Tt-based complex the influence of water is negligible on the isomerization process.

Raman spectroscopy and high-overtone driven isomerization of glyoxylic acid in solid argon

2013

High-overtone induced chemistry of glyoxylic acid isolated in a low-temperature argon matrix was investigated using Raman spectroscopy. The Raman spectra of two most stable conformers of glyoxylic acid are presented. Upon excitation in high overtone vibrational bands by 532 nm irradiation of the lowest energy conformer most abundant in neat deposited sample, the isomerization of glyoxylic acid was observed. The process most plausible proceeds via absorption into the fifth vibrational overtone state of the OH group or its combination with the torsional vibrational transition. The assignment of the fundamental vibrational spectra was assisted by quantum chemical harmonic and anharmonic vibrat…

Isolated glyoxylic acid-water 1:1 complexes in low temperature argon matrices

2015

Abstract The 1:1 hydrogen bonded complexes between glyoxylic acid (GA) and water are studied in low temperature argon matrices. Four different complex structures were found in deposited matrices. The lowest energy conformer (T1) of GA was found to form complex, where the water molecule was attached to the opposite side of the intramolecular hydrogen bond in the molecule (T1B). Interestingly, this complex was estimated to be +8.0 kJ mol −1 higher in energy than the most stable structure (T1A), where the water is inserted into the internal hydrogen bond, and also found in solid argon but in smaller abundance. For the second-lowest energy conformer of GA (T2), the two lowest-energy complex str…

Asymmetric synthesis of bicyclic amino acid derivatives by Aza-Diels-Alder reactions in aqueous solution

1991

Derivatives 7–10 and 13–16 of methyl and ethyl 2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-3-carboxylates are synthesized by Aza-Diels-Alder reactions of chiral iminium ions, formed in situ from glyoxylic acid and chiral amines, with cyclopentadiene. Whereas the heterodienophiles derived from phenylglycinol and esters of sterically more demanding amino acids fail to undergo asymmetric cycloadditions, with alanine methyl ester and (R)-1-phenylethylamine hydrochoride the cycloadducts are formed in yields of 15 and 52%, respectively, reaching de values of up to 90:10 for the exo isomers.

ChemInform Abstract: Asymmetric Synthesis of Bicyclic Amino Acid Derivatives by Aza-Diels- Alder Reactions in Aqueous Solution.

2010

Derivatives 7–10 and 13–16 of methyl and ethyl 2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-3-carboxylates are synthesized by Aza-Diels-Alder reactions of chiral iminium ions, formed in situ from glyoxylic acid and chiral amines, with cyclopentadiene. Whereas the heterodienophiles derived from phenylglycinol and esters of sterically more demanding amino acids fail to undergo asymmetric cycloadditions, with alanine methyl ester and (R)-1-phenylethylamine hydrochoride the cycloadducts are formed in yields of 15 and 52%, respectively, reaching de values of up to 90:10 for the exo isomers.

Corrigendum to “Light-induced, site-selective isomerization of glyoxylic acid in solid xenon” [Chem. Phys. Lett. 616–617 (2014) 91–97]

2015

Light-induced, site-selective isomerization of glyoxylic acid in solid xenon

2014

Abstract The isomerization of glyoxylic acid (GA) and its water complex was studied in a low temperature xenon matrix. The aim of these studies was to understand how xenon environment affects the cis-trans GA interconversion upon near infrared irradiation. In solid xenon, the GA conformers are embedded in two different matrix sites. These show up as different vibrational bands of GA that exhibit different kinetic rates of isomerization. Upon complexation with water, the isomerization process slows down. Xenon matrix appears not to affect energy relaxation process via intramolecular or intermolecular hydrogen bond as compared with previous experiments in an argon.