Abstract
Sodium hydroxymethanesulfinate, (HOCH2SO2Na, HMS) is relatively stable in aqueous alkaline environments, but rapidly decomposes in acidic medium to give a variety of products that include sulfur dioxide. A detailed kinetic and mechanistic study of the decomposition of HMS in slightly acidic medium has shown a process that produces dithionite, S2O2-4, which is preceded by an induction period which persists for as long as molecular oxygen is present in the reaction solution. The complete consumption of molecular oxygen is a prerequisite for the formation of S2O2-4. Among some of the intermediates detected in the decomposition of HMS is the sulfite radical, SO-3. Comparisons are made between the decomposition mechanisms of thiourea dioxide (aminoiminomethanesulfinic acid) and HMS.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 289-296 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| Volume | 367 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 15 1999 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank the Ivanovo Academy of Chemistry and Technology for giving a leave of absence to S.V.M. S.V.M. is grateful to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research for financial support (Grant No. 98-03-32802). C.M. is grateful to Steve Leonard for helping with ESR experiments. This work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. CHE-9632592).
Funding
We thank the Ivanovo Academy of Chemistry and Technology for giving a leave of absence to S.V.M. S.V.M. is grateful to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research for financial support (Grant No. 98-03-32802). C.M. is grateful to Steve Leonard for helping with ESR experiments. This work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. CHE-9632592).
| Funders | Funder number |
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| U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China | CHE-9632592 |
| U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
| Russian Foundation for Basic Research | 98-03-32802 |
| Russian Foundation for Basic Research |
Keywords
- Aminoiminomethanesulfinic acid
- Hydroxymethanesulfinate
- Reactive oxygen species
- Sulfite radical ion
- Sulfoxylate ion
- Sulfur dioxide radical ion
- Thioureas oxides
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology