The Products of Nitrite Reacted with L-Ascorbic Acid

Abstract:

The L-ascorbic acid can reduce the nitrite to nitric oxide, but the elevated nitrite-to-L-ascorbic acid ratio predisposes to the formation of potentially carcinogenic N-nitroso compound. We study the chemicals which nitrite reacted to L-ascorbic acid with an elevated L-ascorbic acid-to- nitrite ratio in the solution. The products, when the nitrite reacted with L-ascorbic in the solution, were nitric oxide (NO), dinitrogen monoxide (N₂O) and nitrogen gas (N₂). We give advice that it maybe useful to understand the products which nitrite reacts with L-ascorbic acid in the human beings and other organisms.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 343-344)
• Pages: 862-867
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.343-344.862
• Online since: September 2011
• Authors: Tao Li, G.J. Guo, M. Hu, M.J. Yao
• Keywords: Dinitrogen Monoxide, L-Ascorbic Acid, Nitric Oxide (NO), Nitrite, Nitrogen Gas

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