Superoxide Ion: Volume II (1991) - Chemistry and Biological Implications

The chemical properties of superoxide ion, its biological role, and the role of other oxygen radicals which arise as a result of its transformations are contained in this text. In Volume I the principal reactions of superoxide ion, including protonation reactions with proton donors, nucleophilic reactions with esters, alkyl halides and other compounds, electron transfer reactions with quinones and metal complexes, are described.

List of contents

Chapter 1
Who Is the Villain (Classification and Reactivities of Oxygen Species in Biological Systems)
Chapter 2
Nonenzymatic and Enzymatic Production of Oxygen Radicals in Biological Systems
Chapter 3
Production of Oxygen radicals by Xenibiotics
Chapter 4
Production of Oxygen Radicals by Cells
Chapter 5
The Interaction of Oxygen Radicals with Natural and Biologically Active Compounds, Cellular Components, and Cells
Apendix I
Apendix II
Index

About the author

Igor B. Afanas'ev D.Sc., Professor, is Chief of the Laboratory of Chemical Kinetics, All-Union Vitamin Research Institute, Moscow.

Summary

The chemical properties of superoxide ion, its biological role, and the role of other oxygen radicals which arise as a result of its transformations are contained in this text.

Product details

• Authors: Igor B. Afanas’ev, Igor B Afanas'ev, Igor B. Afanas'ev, Igor B. (All-Union Vitamin Research Institute Afanas'ev, Igor B. Afanas''ev, Igor B. (All-Union Vitamin Research In Afanas''ev, Afanas'ev Igor B.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138561991
• ISBN: 978-1-138-56199-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: CRC Press Revivals; CRC Press Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, MEDICAL / Biochemistry, biochemistry