Reaction of Amines with NO at room temperature and atmospheric pressure: is nitroxyl a reaction intermediate?

HAMER MARIANA; SUAREZ, SEBASTIAN A.*; MARTINA MUÑOZ; ALVAREZ, LUCIA; MARCELO MARTI; FABIO DOCTOROVICH.

PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

INT UNION PURE APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Año: 2020

0033-4545

The novelty of this work lies in the experimental confirmation that alkylamines react with NO in aqueous solution at room temperature and atmospheric pressure conditions releasing HNO. We combined spectroscopic, electrochemical, and kinetic techniques to describe the reactions intermediates and characterized end products determined by UV-vis, NMR, and GC-MS. Nitrosamine and propene were detected for the reactions of diethylamine and isopropylamine, showing differential mechanisms between primary and secondary alkylamines. Finally, mechanistic analysis using ab-initio methods was performed and compared with the molecular mechanism proposed for the decomposition of NONOates. The results are discussed in the context of the growing interest in the NO/HNO interconversion reactions, required to understand their overlapping and different reactivity