Etudes photochimiques—VIII

VUV Dissociative Photoionization of Quinoline in the 7–26 eV Photon Energy Range

The dissociative photoionization of quinoline was studied by photoionization mass spectrometry and ion yield measurements over a synchrotron photon excitation energy range 7–26 eV. The ionic and neutral products were identified with the aid of thermochemical calculations that, in some cases, led to deeper understanding of photodissociation pathways and the determination of upper limits of heats of formation of ionic and neutral dissociation products. A detailed comparison between the 20 eV photon excitation and 70 eV electron impact mass spectra, coupled with estimation of thermochemical appearance energies, leads to assignment of the dissociative ionization cation and neutral products for each detected ion. Reaction schemes for formation of these products are proposed in a number of cases. Ion intensities in the photon and electron impact mass spectra were used to consider extending a rule of charge retention in simple bond cleavage to more complex cases of dissociative ionization.

Photo-initiated peroxidation of lipids in micelles by azaaromatics

The monoazaaromatics, pyridine (1), hexyl nicotinate (2), and quinoline (3) and diazaaromatics, pyrimidine (4) and purine (5), readily act as photo-initiators for the peroxidation of methyl linoleate in 0.50 M SDS at 37 degrees C giving free radical chain oxidations of linoleate. Quantitative kinetic runs on the order in substate, RH, and in the rate of chain initiation, Ri, showed that the classical rate law for autoxidation, -d[O2]/dt = (kp/(2 kt 1/2))[RH] x Ri 1/2, is applicable to these photo-initiated oxidations. The oxidizability of methyl linoleate under these conditions is 2.92 x 10(-2) M-1/2 s-1/2. These peroxidations were inhibited by chromanol phenolic antioxidants of the vitamin E class, such as lipid-soluble 2,2,5,7,8-pentamethyl-6-hydroxychroman (PMHC) and water-soluble 2-carboxy- 2,5,7,8-tetramethyl-6-hydroxychroman (Trolox) and derived rate constants for inhibition of peroxidation were kinh (PMHC) = 4.35 x 10(4) M-1 s-1 and k(inh) (Trolox) = 2.81 x 10(4) M-1 s-1 during inhibited oxidation of methyl linoleate photo-initiated by 4. The products from photo-initiated peroxidation of methyl linoleate by 1 through 5 were determined by reduction and high-performance liquid chromatography analyses to be the 9- and 13-positional hydroperoxides of the four geometrical isomers: cis-9, trans-11 (6), trans-10, cis-12 (7), trans-9, trans-11 (8), and trans-10, trans-12 (9)-octadecadienoates typical of the free radical chain mechanism of lipid peroxidation. Products from dye-sensitized oxidation by Methylene Blue or Rose Bengal of methyl linoleate gave a product distribution of six hydroperoxides typical of oxidation by singlet oxygen. Thermal or photo-initiated peroxidation of methyl linoleate in SDS gave some selectivity of oxidation at the 13-position of the linoleate chain. The ratio of 13- to 9-oxidation varied in the range 1.23 to 1.14 as the cis/trans to trans/trans ratio of geometrical isomers varied from 0.44 to 1.25 during photooxidation of increased amounts of linoleate in SDS. This selectivity is attributed to loss of the pseudo symmetry around the pentadienyl system in the lipid chain in the SDS system during the peroxidation.