BIPYRIDYLIUM QUATERNARY-SALTS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS .5. PULSE-RADIOLYSIS STUDIES OF REACTION OF PARAQUAT RADICAL WITH OXYGEN - IMPLICATIONS FOR MODE OF ACTION OF BIPYRIDYL HERBICIDES
BIPYRIDYLIUM QUATERNARY-SALTS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS .5. PULSE-RADIOLYSIS STUDIES OF REACTION OF PARAQUAT RADICAL WITH OXYGEN - IMPLICATIONS FOR MODE OF ACTION OF BIPYRIDYL HERBICIDES
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DOI:
10.1016/0005-2728(73)90121-7
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
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FLETCHER, K
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作者:
FARRINGTON, JA;EBERT, M;FLETCHER, K
1. Rate constants for reduction of paraquat ion (1,1′-dimethyl-4,4′-bipyridy-lium, PQ2+) to paraquat radical (PQ+·) bye−aqand CO2−· have been measured by pulse radiolysis. Reduction bye−aqis diffusion controlled (k= 8.4·1010M−1·s−1) and reduction by CO2−· is also very fastk= 1.5·1010M−1·s−1).2. The reaction of paraquat radical with oxygen has been analysed to give rate constants of 7.7·108M−1·s−1and 6.5·108M−1·s−1for the reactions of paraquat radical with O2and O2−·, respectively. The similarity in these rate constants is in marked contrast to the difference in redox potentials of O2and O2−· (− 0.59 V and + 1.12 V, respectively).3. These rate constants, together with that for the self-reaction of O2−·, have been used to calculate the steady-state concentration of O2−· under conditions thought to apply at the site of reduction of paraquat in the plant cell. On the basis of these calculations the decay of O2−· appears to be governed almost entirely by its self-reaction, and the concentration 5 μm away from the thylakoid is still 90% of that at the thylakoid itself. Thus, O2−· persists long enough to diffuse as far as the chloroplast envelope and tonoplast, which are the first structures to be damaged by paraquat treatment. O2−· is therefore sufficiently long-lived to be a candidate for the phytotoxic product formed by paraquat in plants.