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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 71, Issue 11, Pages 4246-4254Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo060482i
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In 0.1 M phosphate buffer, pH 3.0, and at 37 degrees C, resveratrol ((E)- 3,4',5-trihydroxystilbene, 1a), an antioxidant and cancer chemopreventive phytoalexin, reacted smoothly at 25 AM or 1 mM concentration with excess nitrite ions (NO2-) to give a complex pattern of products, including two novel regioisomeric alpha-nitro (3a) and 3'-nitro (4) derivatives along with some (E)-3,4',5-trihydroxy- 2,3'-dinitrostilbene (5), four oxidative breakdown products, 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde, 4-hydroxy-3-nitrobenzaldehyde, 3,5-dihydroxyphenylnitromethane, and 3,5- dihydroxybenzaldehyde, two dimers, the resveratrol ( E)- dehydrodimer 6 and restrytisol B (7), and the partially cleaved dimer 2. The same products were formed in the absence of oxygen. H-1, N-15 HMBC and LC/MS analysis of the crude mixture obtained by reaction of 1a with (NaNO2)-N-15 suggested the presence of 3,4',5,beta-tetrahydroxy-alpha-nitro-alpha,beta-dihydrostilbene (8) as unstable intermediate which escaped isolation. Under similar conditions, the structurally related catecholic stilbene piceatannol ((E)-3,3',4,5'-tetrahydroxystilbene, 1b) gave, besides (E)-3,3',4,5'-tetrahydroxy-beta-nitrostilbene (3b),3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde and small amounts of 3,5-dihydroxybenzaldehyde. Mechanistic experiments were consistent with the initial generation of the phenoxyl radical of 1a at 4'-OH, which may undergo free radical coupling with NO2 at the alpha- or 3'-position, to give eventually nitrated derivatives and/or oxidative double bond fission products, or self-coupling, to give dimers. The oxygen-independent, NO2-- mediated oxidative fission of the double bond under mild, physiologically relevant conditions is unprecedented in stilbene chemistry and is proposed to involve breakdown of hydroxynitro(so) intermediates of the type 8.
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