A laser flash photolysis and pulse radiolysis study of primary photochemical processes of flumequine.
PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY(2009)
Abstract
The 355 nm laser flash photolysis of argon-saturated pH 8 phosphate buffer solutions of the fluoroquinolone antibiotic flumequine produces a transient triplet state with a maximum absorbance at 575 nm where the molar absorptivity is 14 000 M-1 cm(-1). The quantum yield of triplet formation is 0.9, The transient triplet state is quenched by various Type-1 photodynamic substrates such as tryptophan (TrpH), tyrosine, N-acetylcysteine and 2-deoxyguanosine leading to the formation of the semireduced flumequine species. This semireduced form has been readily identified by pulse radiolysis of argon-saturated pH 8 buffered aqueous solutions by reaction of the hydrated electrons and the CO2.- radicals with flumequine, The absorption maximum of the transient semireduced species is found at 570 mn with a molar absorptivity of 2500 M-1 cm(-1). In argon-saturated buffered solutions, the semireduced flumequine species formed by the reaction of the flumequine triplet with TrpH stoichiometrically reduces ferricytochrome C (Cyt Fe3+) under steady state irradiation with ultraviolet-A light. In the presence of oxygen, O-2(.-) is formed but the photoreduction of Cyt Fe3+ by O-2(.-) competes with an oxidizing pathway which involves photo-oxidation products of TrpH.
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Key words
primary photochemical processes,laser flash photolysis,pulse radiolysis study
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