Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 19, Issue 7, Pages 9798-9817Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/molecules19079798
Keywords
Hydractinia echinata (H. echinata); azo derivatives; simple tautomery (ST); double alternante tautomery (DAT); hydrolysis/reduction mechanisms; isotoxicity
Funding
- Institute of Chemistry Timisoara of the Romanian Academy [1.1]
- CNCSIS-UEFISCSU [PN II-RU PD_502/2010]
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Structure-toxicity relationships for a series of 75 azo and azo-anilide dyes and five diazonium salts were developed using Hydractinia echinata (H. echinata) as model species. In addition, based on these relationships, predictions for 58 other azo-dyes were made. The experimental results showed that the measured effectiveness Mlog(1/MRC50) does not depend on the number of azo groups or the ones corresponding to metobolites, but it is influenced by the number of anilide groups, as well as by the substituents' positions within molecules. The conformational analysis pointed out the intramolecular hydrogen bonds, especially the simple tautomerization of quinoidic (STOH) or aminoidic (STNH2) type. The effectiveness is strongly influenced by the push-pull electronic effect, specific to two hydroxy or amino groups separated by an azo moiety (double alternate tautomery, (DAT), to the -COOH or -SO3H groups which are located in ortho or para position with respect to the azo group. The levels of the lipophylic/hydrophilic, electronic and steric equilibriums, pointed out by the Mlog(1/MRC50) values, enabled the calculation of their average values Clog(1/MRC50) (Koln model), characteristic to one derivative class (class isotoxicity). The azo group reduction and the hydrolysis of the amido/peptidic group are two concurrent enzymatic reactions, which occur with different reaction rates and mechanisms. The products of the partial biodegradation are aromatic amines. No additive or synergic effects are noticed among them.
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