scholarly journals THE QUESTION OF TRIAZENES IN THE TOTAL COLOR EFFECT OF THE PROTEIN AZO COUPLING REACTION IN HISTOCHEMISTRY

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. LILLIE

The suggestion that triazenes formed by union of alkalized diazonium salts with aliphatic amino groups contribute to the azo color reaction of tissue proteins is rejected. Deaminations of formaldehyde-fixed and other tissues were sufficient to render the previously oxyphil elements of these tissues basophilic to azure A-eosin B at the same pH level. After these deaminations there was no detectable difference in intensity or distribution of the azo coupling reaction. Freshly diazotized safranin O, dimethylphenosafranin (methylene violet) and the diazosulfanilic acid, azure A sequence technic were used as testing methods. Acid extraction even when prolonged to 24 hr and when acid concentration raised from 0.1 N to 0.24 N does not alter the intensity or distribution of the several azo coupling reactions as compared with unextracted preparations. Deliberate creation of triazenes by admixture of proline, diethylamine, hydroxylamine, hydrazine sulfate, glycine and uric acid, added to the diazo in stoichiometric excess, more or less completely inhibited azo coupling of all tissue elements. Uric acid and hydrazine were the most efiective, and then hydroxylamine, proline and diethylamine in that order. Reacidification of the uric acid compound to pH 2.2-2.5 for 10 min, filtration to remove liberated uric acid and realkalinization moderately restored the azo coupling capacity of diazosafranin. This illustrates acid destruction of a triazene of this diazotate. It is concluded that triazenes with tissue aliamino groups play no significant part in the final color effect of azo coupling with the diazonium salts used.

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. LILLIE ◽  
P. PIZZOLATO

Azo bilirubins and azohematoidins resist alcohol dehydration and mounting in resinous media after adequate coupling reactions. The azo colors are resistant to hydrochloric acid extraction (0.1 N 30 min routinely) but are bleached at varying rates according to the specific dye by sodium dithionite solution. Fresh dithionite is required. The azo coupling reaction of bile casts is prevented by ethanol acetic anhydride acetylation, restored by alcoholic KOH saponification and prevented completely by oxidation with 0.2% CrO3 (4 hr) or by a diammine silver, iodine, thiosulfate sequence. These oxidations do not alter the alkaline azo coupling reactions of tissue protein. Azo coupling of bile casts is unaltered by a 24-hr 10% iodine-methanol, 2-min thiosulfate sequence or by a 24-hr 0.1 M bisulfite reduction. The reactive bilirubin is resistant to hot methanol chloroform primary fixation as well as to exhaustive extraction by this solvent after formol fixation, although both of these procedures extract readily visible amounts of yellow material into the solvent. It appears that the azo-reactive material must be protein bound. Alkaline azo coupling with diazosafranin is weakened by lesser amounts and completely prevented by addition of equimolar or greater amounts of uric acid to the diazo.


1969 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 738-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. LILLIE ◽  
P. PIZZOLATO

The azo coupling reaction readily demonstrates bile pigment and hematoidin in routine paraffin sections of human postmortem and surgical material fixed in formol, alcohol, chloroform + methanol, etc. A number of freshly diazotized amines as well as several commercial stable diazonium salts have been used successfully both in acid (1 N acetic acid) and slightly alkaline (pH 7.5-8) media. Alkaline coupling yields colors with some diazotates which have been perfectly stable for 14-18 months. Acid azo coupling almost completely eliminates background staining, but the staining results appear to be somewhat less stable. However, moderately good retention of stain for 6 months has been observed. Safranin O yields dark red to purple bile casts and granules and hematoidin globules and crystals, methylene violet (C.I. 50205) gives deep violet and p-nitroaniline (fast red GG) gives deep red colors of good stability. Fast black K, fast black B, fast blue B, fast garnet GBC and fast red B have given satisfactory red colors, but stable diazotates must be reasonably fresh with preferably under 1 year of shelf storage. Ethylanthranilate, anthranilic acid and even aniline have yielded deep red stains of bile casts and hematoidin, but the azo colors are increasingly unstable in the order given, the last fading completely in 18 hr. More consistent results are obtained with ethylanthranilate when a modified Claus diazotization is used. None of the diazonium salts tested discriminated between bile casts and hematoidin. The periodic acid-Schiff glycol reaction colors bile casts red but fails to color hematoidin globules. It is thought that this reaction demonstrates the presence or absence of glucuronic acid, although of course it is not specific for that substance. For the study of hematoidin several of the red azo coupling reactions were successfully combined with a preceding Prussian blue reaction for hemosiderin. Combination of the argentaffin reaction with the Prussian blue reaction does not prove practicable in either sequence. Sulfation enhances the basophilia of bile casts, but to a lesser degree than alkaline azo coupling with sulfanilic acid.


1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 1367-1379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Macháček ◽  
Alexandr Čegan ◽  
Aleš Halama ◽  
Olga Rožňavská ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba

Azo coupling reactions of benzenediazonium salts with substituted 4-amino-3-penten-2-ones take place at the C-3 atom. 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy has been used to study the structure of both the starting enaminones and coupling products. In CDCl3, 3-(4-chlorophenylhydrazono)-2-(4-methylphenylimino)-4-pentanone exists in hydrazo form whereas 4-amino-3-(4-chlorophenylazo)-3-penten-2-one is present as a mixture of two azo compounds differing probably in the arrangement of the intramolecular hydrogen bond. The azo coupling reaction kinetics have been studied in acetate buffers and methanol-water or tert-butyl alcohol-water mixtures. The coupling rate has been found independent of pH and buffer concentration. The reaction orders with respect to the starting compounds have been determined and the reaction mechanism is suggested. Linear dependence has been found between log kobs and substituent constants according to the Hammett or Yukawa-Tsuno equations.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (17) ◽  
pp. 10259-10265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-Hsuan Cho ◽  
Shan-Chi Kuo ◽  
Ying-Huang Lai

Azo coupling reactions with a 4-NTP-functionalized Ag-Ds/GCE composites.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 1987-2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith M Akwi ◽  
Paul Watts

In this paper, a micro-fluidic optimized process for the continuous flow synthesis of azo compounds is presented. The continuous flow synthesis of Sudan II azo dye was used as a model reaction for the study. At found optimal azo coupling reaction temperature and pH an investigation of the optimum flow rates of the reactants for the diazotization and azo coupling reactions in Little Things Factory-MS microreactors was performed. A conversion of 98% was achieved in approximately 2.4 minutes and a small library of azo compounds was thus generated under these reaction conditions from couplers with aminated or hydroxylated aromatic systems. The scaled up synthesis of these compounds in PTFE tubing (i.d. 1.5 mm) was also investigated, where good reaction conversions ranging between 66–91% were attained.


1966 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 421-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. LILLIE ◽  
R. W. PALMER ◽  
A. GUTIÉRREZ

When azo coupling of tissue with freshly diazotized sulfanilic acid at 20-25 mM concentration in a bicarbonate solution is followed by acid washing and staining with dilute azure A or safranium O solutions at pH 1, the azo coupling sites in tissue are demonstrated with green to greenish black or red colors of sufficient intensity to render the method useful for the study of the distribution of reactive proteins. Erythrocytes react more strongly by this method than with most other diazonium salts. The method also affords a procedure for creating readily demonstrable sulfonic acid groups in tissue sections, for the study of their reactions in comparison with those of ester sulfuric acid groups.


1973 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 455-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. LILLIE ◽  
P. PIZZOLATO ◽  
L. L. VACCA ◽  
R. A. CATALANO ◽  
P. T. DONALDSON

Appreciable azo coupling of enterochromaffin cells (EC) and of adrenal medulla (AM) is restricted to the alkaline range, fading out around pH 6, negative at 3-5. Low pH (3.0) azo coupling of rat and mouse mast cells (MC) with diazosafranin correlates with their known content of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and with the pH 3-9 range of deep red azo coupling color reaction of p-nitrodiazobenzene with 5-hydroxytryptophan and 5-HT. The MC reaction is covalent azo bonding and not cationic dye salt bonding. The MC reaction is not influenced by prior oxidation by HIO4, FeCl3, K2Cr2O7 or I2/CH3OH exposures which prevent azo coupling of EC and of AM. The oxidation blockades of the azo coupling of EC and AM are reversed by Na2S2O5, N2S2O4 or Na2S2O3 reductions. These reductions after oxidation do not affect the MC diazosafranin reaction. In vitro the azo coupling of 5-HT is only slightly retarded but not weakened by HIO4 oxidation and then slightly enhanced by Na2S2O3, while noradrenaline gives red before oxidation, light yellow after, and after Na2S2O3, again deep red, the control α-naphthol giving deep red with p-nitrodiazobenzine at all three phases, before HIO4, between HIO4 and after Na2S2O3. Indole reactions for EC have been reported on glutaraldehyde (G), acetaldehyde and acrolein fixed but not formaldehyde (F) fixed guinea pig duodenum by Solcia and Sampietro (63), Geyer (27) (G), Barter and Pearse (5, 6) and Lillie and Greco-Henson (44). Repetition of the Lillie and Greco-Henson test of combining in the same preparation a blue indole reaction (postcoupled benzylidene) and a red azo coupling reaction with p-nitrodiazobenzene in both sequences disclosed numerous red EC and blue Paneth cells and eosinophil leukocytes, alike on F and G tissue. Direct observation during the second reaction and color photography of the same field after each of the two reactions showed that no red stained cell was replaced by a blue or purple one, and that no blue stained cell altered its color to purple or red. Moreover, azo positive cells were seen in the epithelium of the tips of the villi and in the sides of the gastric glands of the guinea pig pylorus and fundus. Indole positive cells did not occur in villus tip or pyloric gland epithelium and were restricted to fundus chief cells. It is concluded that the azo reactive substance in EC is a catechol and not 5-HT. The fluorescence studies have indicated the presence of 5-HT in EC, but the quantity present is insufficient for the acid azo coupling reaction shown by rat and mouse MC with diazosafranin.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chet Tyrol ◽  
Nang Yone ◽  
Connor Gallin ◽  
Jeffery Byers

By using an iron-based catalyst, access to enantioenriched 1,1-diarylakanes was enabled through an enantioselective Suzuki-Miyaura crosscoupling reaction. The combination of a chiral cyanobis(oxazoline) ligand framework and 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene additive were essential to afford high yields and enantioselectivities in cross-coupling reactions between unactivated aryl boronic esters and a variety of benzylic chlorides, including challenging ortho-substituted benzylic chloride substrates. Mechanistic investigations implicate a stereoconvergent pathway involving carbon-centered radical intermediates.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 989-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Li ◽  
Bo Su ◽  
Yuxiu Liu ◽  
Qingmin Wang

Aim and Objective: During the investigation of sodium nitrite-catalyzed oxidative coupling reaction of aryls, an unprecedented C(sp2)-H and C(sp3)-H coupling of substituted 2-aryl acetonitrile was found. Materials and Methods: The structure of the coupled product was confirmed by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy and high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), and comparison of its derivatives with known compounds. The effects of methoxy group in the benzene ring on the reaction were evaluated. Results: The optimized reaction conditions are summarized as follows: CF3SO3H/substrate = 1.5 equiv., NaNO2/substrate = 0.3 equiv., CH3CN as solvent. 2-(4-Methoxyphenyl)acetonitrile and 2-(3,4,5- trimethoxyphenyl)acetonitrile could also generate C(sp2)-H and C(sp3)-H coupling. The coupling reaction occurred as a typical radial mechanism. Conclusion: An unprecedented cyano-induced, NaNO2-catalyzed oxidative C(sp3)-H and C(sp2)-H coupling was reported. The reaction proceeded under very mild conditions, using O2 in the air as terminal oxidant. The unique oxidative manner might provide more inspiration for the development of intriguing oxidative coupling reactions.


Molbank ◽  
10.3390/m1238 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. M1238
Author(s):  
Ion Burcă ◽  
Valentin Badea ◽  
Calin Deleanu ◽  
Vasile-Nicolae Bercean

A new azo compound was prepared via the azo coupling reaction between 4-(ethoxycarbonyl)-3-methyl-1H-pyrazole-5-diazonium chloride and 8-hydroxyquinoline (oxine). The ester functional group of the obtained compound was hydrolyzed and thus a new chemical structure with a carboxylic functional group resulted. The structures of the new compounds were fully characterized by: UV–Vis, FT-IR, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy, and HRMS spectrometry.


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