High impact information on aminyl

• Radicals 3 underwent intramolecular cyclization onto the C8-N7 double bond of the adenine moiety leading to aminyl radicals (5'S,8R)-4 and (5'R,8R)-4 and, eventually, to the corresponding cyclonucleosides 5 and 6 [1].
• Aminium radicals derived from beta-alanine anions and CH(3)-NH(2) stabilize by deprotonation into aminyl radicals, whereas these derived from alpha-amino acids anions are known to suffer ultrafast decarboxylation (tau approximately 10 ps) [2].
• Experimental and theoretical study of the electronic spectrum of the methylene amidogen radical (H2CN): verification of the 2A1 <-- 2B2 assignment [3].
• When the amino acid nitrogen is unsubstituted (methionine itself), rapid deprotonation to an aminyl radical takes place at high pH values [4].
• The observation that MAO-B catalyzes the efficient oxidation of certain 1-cyclopropyl-4-substituted-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridines to the corresponding dihydropyridinium metabolites suggests that the catalytic pathway for these cyclic tertiary allylamines may not proceed via the putative SET generated aminyl radical cations [5].

Biological context of aminyl

• [reaction: see text] Intramolecular 5-exo cyclization of 3-(2-methyleneaziridin-1-yl)propyl radicals leads to the generation of a highly strained, bicyclic aziridinylcarbinyl radical that undergoes C-N bond fission to the ring-expanded aminyl radical [6].

Associations of aminyl with other chemical compounds

• We report that transition metal coordination also supports an aminyl radical, resulting in a stable crystalline complex: [Rh(I)(trop2N.)(bipy)]+OTf- (where trop is 5-H-dibenzo[a,d]cycloheptene-5-yl, bipy is 2,2'-bipyridyl, OTf- is trifluorosulfonate) [7].

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