• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.4357-4361
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• 2015

Thunbergia Laurifolia Linn. (TL) is one of the most familiar plants in Thai traditional medicine that is used to treat various conditions, including cancer. However, the antitumor activity of TL or its constituents has never been reported at the molecular level to support the folklore claim. The present study was designed to investigate the antitumor effect of an aqueous extract of TL in human breast cancer cells and the possible mechanism(s) of action. An aqueous crude extract was prepared from dried leaves of TL. Folin-Ciocalteu colorimetric assays were used to determine the total phenolic content. Antiproliferative and cell cycle effects were evaluated in human breast adenocarcinoma MCF-7 cells by MTT reduction assay, cell growth inhibition, clonogenic cell survival, and flow cytometric analysis. Free radical generation by the extracts was detected using electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The exposure of human breast adenocarcinoma MCF-7 cells to a TL aqueous extract resulted in decreases in cell growth, clonogenic cell survival, and cell viability in a concentration-dependent manner with an $IC_{50}$ value of $843{\mu}g/ml$. Treatments with extract for 24h at $250{\mu}g/ml$ or higher induced cell cycle arrest as indicated by a significant increase of cell population in the G1 phase and a significant decrease in the S phase of the cell cycle. The capability of the aqueous extract to generate radical intermediates was observed at both high pH and near-neutral pH conditions. The findings suggest the antitumor bioactivities of TL against selected breast cancer cells may be due to induction of a G1 cell cycle arrest. Cytotoxicity and cell cycle perturbation that are associated with a high concentration of the extract could be in part explained by the total phenolic contents in the extract and the capacity to generate radical intermediates to modulate cellular proliferative signals.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.72-81
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• 2003

• 공업화학
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.619-625
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 하이드로퍼옥시 라디칼 생성단계에서 반응 부산물로 생성되는 과산화수소를 정량하여 수산화라디칼의 생성 및 비스페놀 A (BPA)의 분해특성을 조사하였다. 라디칼 연쇄반응이 일어나지 않는 조건에서는 Criegee mechanism과 동일하게 오존에 의한 직접산화반응만이 BPA를 분해시키는 것으로 나타났다. 라디칼 연쇄반응이 일어나는 pH 6.5 및 9.5의 조건에서는 비선택적 산화반응이 일어나 수산화라디칼의 생성을 간접적으로 확인할 수 있었다. 투입된 촉매에 의한 BPA의 분해효율은 $O_3$/PAC ${\geq}$ $O_3/H_2O_2$ > $O_3$/high pH > $O_3$ alone 공정 순으로 나타났다. 오존/촉매공정들의 산화반응 동안에는 0.03~0.08 mM의 과산화수소가 지속적으로 측정되었다. $O_3$/high pH 공정의 경우, BPA가 반응시작 50 min 만에 완전히 분해되었지만, TOC (총유기탄소) 제거율은 29%로 산화반응 중 생성된 중간물질을 충분히 산화시키지 못하는 것으로 나타났다(선택적 산화반응). $O_3/H_2O_2$ 및 $O_3$/PAC 공정에서는 BPA가 반응시작 40 min 만에 완전히 분해되었으며, TOC 제거율은 각각 57% 및 66% 정도로 반응 중간체들을 산화(비선택적 산화반응)시키는 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.2
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• pp.288.3-289
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• 2002

Increasing evidence regarding free radical generating agents and inflammatory processes suggests that accumulation of reactive oxygen species can cause hepatotoxicity. A short-chain analog of lipid hydroperoxide, t-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP), can be metabolized to free radical intermediates by cytochrome P-450 in hepatocytes. which in turn can initiate lipid peroxidation, affect cell integrity and result in cell injury. (omitted)

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.44-48
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• 1988

The feasibility of the reduction of nortricyclanone (1) as a chemical probe for testing the proposed radical mechanism for NAD-dependent horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase (HLADH) reactions has been examined using computer graphics modeling. The resutls of this study suggest that the radical ring-opening of this probe molecule may involve too substantial a geometry reorganization for the molecule to serve as a chemical probe in detecting the possible presence of the radical intermediates in the HLADH reactions. This result suggests that one should exercise caution in extrapolating results obtained from chemically based radical probes in the solution phase to the topologically constrained systems such as enzyme-substrate reactions.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.9-20
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• 2003

Recent studies on the photoreactivity of l,4-unsaturated systems have changed some ideas that were firmly established in this area of research for many years. Thus, we have described the first examples of 2-aza-di-$\pi$-methane (2-ADPM) rearrangements promoted by triplet-sensitization and by single electron transfer (SET) using electron-acceptor sensitizers. These reactions afford N-vinylaziridine and cyclopropylimine photoproducts in the first examples of di-$\pi$-methane processes that yield three-membered ring heterocycles. l-Aza-1,4-dienes also undergo SET-promoted l-aza-di-$\pi$-methane (l-ADPM) rearrangements via radical-cation intermediates using electron acceptor sensitizers. In some cases, alternative cyclizations yielding different carbocycles and heterocycles have been observed. The l-ADPM and di-$\pi$-methane (DPM) reactions also occur via radical-anion intermediates on irradiation using electron donor sensitizers. On the other hand, the photoreactivity reported for $\beta$,${\gamma}$-unsaturated aldehydes for many years was decarbonylation to the corresponding alkenes. However, our studies demonstrate that these compounds undergo the oxa-di-$\pi$-methane (ODPM) rearrangement with high chemical and quantum efficiency. A comparison of the photochemical reactivity of $\beta$,${\gamma}$-unsaturated aldehydes and corresponding methyl ketones has shown that the ketones do not undergo the ODPM rearrangement while the corresponding aldehydes are reactive by this pathway. Monosubstituted $\beta$,${\gamma}$-unsaturated aldehydes at C-2 undergo the ODPM rearrangement yielding the corresponding cyclopropane carbaldehydes diastereoselectively. Finally, we have described the first examples of reactions, similar to the well know Norrish Type I process, which take place in the triplet excited state of $\beta$,${\gamma}$-unsaturated carbonyl compounds by excitation of the C-C double bond instead of the carbonyl group.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.3738-3742
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• 2013

The reaction mechanism of $SiF_2$ radical with HNCO has been investigated by the B3LYP method of density functional theory(DFT), while the geometries and harmonic vibration frequencies of reactants, intermediates, transition states and products have been calculated at the B3LYP/$6-311++G^{**}$ level. To obtain more precise energy result, stationary point energies were calculated at the CCSD(T)/$6-311++G^{**}$//B3LYP/$6-311++G^{**}$ level. $SiF_2+HNCO{\rightarrow}IM3{\rightarrow}TS5{\rightarrow}IM4{\rightarrow}TS6{\rightarrow}OSiF_2CNH(P3)$ was the main channel with low potential energy, $OSiF_2CNH$ was the main product. The analyses for the combining interaction between $SiF_2$ radical and HNCO with the atom-in-molecules theory (AIM) have been performed.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.325-328
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• 1979

트란스-1,2-비스피라질에틸렌(BPE)과 테트라메틸에틸렌(TME)용액에 빛을 쪼이면 이에대응한 탄화수소와는 달리 자유라디칼중간체를 거쳐 광첨가반응이 일어난다. 이 광첨가반응은 BPE의 $^1(n,\;{\pi}^*)$ 상태가 어느정도 자유라디칼 성격을 띄어 TME로 부터 알릴위치에 있는 수소원자를 탈취하여 일어난다. 주생성물을 대롱 크로마토그래피와 진공분별승화법으로 분리하여 2,3-디메틸-5,6-비스피라질-2-헥센임을 밝혔다.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.89-93
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• 2000

The oxidation of methane was carried out in six different configurations of plasma reactors in order to study the radical reactions inside and outside of the plasma zone and to explore the method to control them. Various radicals and reactive molecules, such as CH, $CH_{2}$, $CH_{3}$, H, and O(from $O_{2}$) were generated in the plasma. A variety of products were produced through many competing reaction pathways. Among them. partial oxidation products were usually not favored, because the intermediates leading to the partial oxidation products could be oxidized further to carbon dioxides easily. It is important to control the free radical reactions in the plasma reactor by controlling the experimental conditions so that the reactions leading to the desired products are the major pathways.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2003년도 총회 및 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.145-148
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• 2003

The batch experiments showed that 0.515mM 4-chlorophenol and its oxidation intermediates could be totally decomposed within 60 minutes by 1g/L steelers' dust and 0.485mM hydrogen peroxide at pH 2.7. The rate constants in the simplified kinetic model proposed in this study were estimated by fitting to the experimental data obtained in $H_2O$$_2$/steelers' dust system. Using the estimated kinetic rate constants, the simulation of 4-chlorophenol, ferrous iron, hydrogen peroxide, and hydroxyl radical concentration was performed. The predicted concentrations of 4-chlorophenol and hydrogen peroxide corresponded to the actual concentrations.