Tetrahedron p. 5913 - 5920 (1995)
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Napolitano, Alessandra
Pezzella, Alessandro
Vincensi, M. Rosaria
Prota, Giuseppe
The origin of pyrrole-2,3,5-tricarboxylic acid (PTCA), the most characteristic degradation product of melanins, was investigated by use of synthetic pigments prepared from the major biosynthetic precursors, 5,6-dihydroxyindole (DHI) and 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA).Under the reported conditions, i.e. acidic permanganate, oxidative degradation of DHI- and DHICA-melanins afforded PTCA in 0.15 and 3.0percent w/w yield, respectively.A significant improvement of PTCA yields up to 7percent was obtained using alkaline hydrogen peroxide as the oxidising agent.Under these conditions pyrrole-2,3-dicarboxylic acid (PDCA) was also obtained in significant yields.Investigations of the oxidative degradation of some model indole obligomers (1-4) provided unambiguous evidence that PTCA may originate from 2-linked DHI-units in the pigment polymer as well as from DHICA-derived units, whereas PDCA arises from DHI-units not substituted at 2-position.Monitoring of the oxidation of dimer 1 to PTCA showed the intermediate formation of DHICA.Accordingly, a mechanistic route is proposed for the degradation of 2-substituted DHI-units in melanin polymer to PTCA, which also accounts for the observed yields of formation of the pyrrole acid from the model oligomers.
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