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Cholesterol-diaryl ketone stereoisomeric dyads as models for "clean" type i and type II photooxygenation mechanisms
Andreu, Inmaculada,Morera, Isabel M.,Bosca, Francisco,Sanchez, Laura,Camps, Pelayo,Miranda, Miguel A.
experimental part, p. 860 - 867 (2008/10/09)
Cholesterol (Ch) is a major target for oxidative degradation in cell membranes, a process which can occur by two mechanisms: Type I (via free radicals) and Type II (mediated by 1O2). In the present work, several dyads have been synthesized from β- and α-Ch and ketoprofen (KP) or tiaprofenic acid (TPA). Upon irradiation under anaerobic conditions, KP-α-Ch dyads were efficiently photolyzed, via intramolecular hydrogen abstraction from C-7. By contrast, KP-β-Ch, TPA-α-Ch, and TPA-β-Ch remained unchanged after prolonged irradiation. The transient absorption spectra of KP-α-Ch were assigned to the short-lived biradicals resulting from intramolecular hydrogen abstraction. Interestingly, the spectra and lifetimes obtained for the TPA-derived dyads were very similar to those of the TPA triplet excited state. For the KP-α-Ch dyads, generation of singlet oxygen was expectedly negligible. Conversely, for TPA-α-Ch a ΦΔ value as high as 0.5 was determined. Thus, KP-based dyads are appropriate models for clean type I Ch oxidation, whereas the TPA derivatives are suitable systems for investigation of the purely type II process. The Royal Society of Chemistry.
