the process of nitrating; esp., the introduction of the NO2 group into an organic compound
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An important structural consequence of nitration was oligomerization.
Chloé Ackaert, Stefan Kofler, Jutta Horejs-Hoeck, Nora Zulehner, Claudia Asam, Susannevon Grafenstein, Julian E Fuchs, Peter Briza, Klaus R Liedl, Barbara Bohle, FátimaFerreira, Hans Brandstetter, Gertie J Oostingh, Albert Duschl 2014, 'The impact of nitration on the structure and immunogenicity of the major birch pollenallergen Bet v 1.0101.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4134196?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Selected recent patents that disclose scale-up methodologies for continuous flow nitration are also briefly reviewed.
Amol A. Kulkarni 2014, 'Continuous flow nitration in miniaturized devices', Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistryhttps://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.10.38. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
With longer treatment time, the treatment was also found to induce nitration of the heme.
Joey De Backer, Jamoliddin Razzokov, Dietmar Hammerschmid, Carl Mensch, Zainab Hafideddine,Naresh Kumar, Geert van Raemdonck, Maksudbek Yusupov, Sabine Van Doorslaer, ChristianJohannessen, Frank Sobott, Annemie Bogaerts, Sylvia Dewilde 2018, 'The effect of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species on the structure of cytoglobin:A potential tumor suppressor', Redox Biologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231718304658. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Electrophilic substitution, mainly nitration, of the various compounds was undertaken and the substitution positions determined.
Yoel Kashman, Marta Garcia Gravalos, Amira Rudi, Avi Koller 2001, 'Synthesis and Electrophilic Substitution of Pyrido[2,3,4-kl]-acridines', Moleculeshttp://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/6/4/300/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Over the same catalysts, nitration was extended for some other aromatics.
Sunil Madhavrao Kemdeo 2012, 'MoO3/SiO2-ZrO2 Catalyst: Eeffect of Calcination Temperature on Physico-chemical Propertiesand Activities in Nitration of Toluene', Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysishttp://ejournal.undip.ac.id/index.php/bcrec/article/view/3521. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The most important oxidative protein modifications described for peroxynitrite are cysteine-thiol oxidation and tyrosine nitration.
Thomas Münzel, Serge Bottari, Tadashi Tanabe, Masayuki Wada, Alexandra Megner, PatrickSchmidt, Sebastian Steven, Matthias Oelze, Stefan Schildknecht, Markus Bachschmid,Steffen Daub, Andreas Daiber, Volker Ullrich 2013, 'Protein Tyrosine Nitration and Thiol Oxidation by Peroxynitrite—Strategies to PreventThese Oxidative Modifications', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/14/4/7542. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These tests were performed before and after nitration.
Marwan Arbilei Arbilei, Jamal Mohammed Hamed 2018, 'Liquid Nitriding of Stainless Steel 316L to improve fatigue properties for OrthopedicScrews', مجلة النهرين للعلوم الهندسيةhttps://nahje.com/index.php/main/article/view/413. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The increase in oxidized nitrogen indicated the nitrification and nitration process.
Marlen Erika Caris, André S. P. de Andrade, Luiz Sérgio Philippi 2008, 'Determination of the potential for bioremediation and nutrient bioindicator of swinewastewater by floating macrophytes (Lemna minuta) - Effect of high rates of ammoniacalnitrogen', Evidênciahttp://editora.unoesc.edu.br/index.php/evidencia/article/view/1874/946. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this study we investigated the kinetics of the nitration of quercetin by horseradish peroxidase.
Andrija Šmelcerović, Nataša Sokolov, Živomir Petronijević 2013, 'KINETICS OF QUERCETIN NITRATIO N BY HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE', Acta Medica Medianaehttp://publisher.medfak.ni.ac.rs/2013-html/2-broj/Andrija%20Smelcerovic-Kinetics.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)