Gooden, D: Synthesis and Physical Organic Chemistry of C-Nit

Much of our knowledge regarding the biology of nitric oxide (NO), a key biological signaling molecule, has come from the use of synthetic agents that release NO or a redox-related species. Despite the proliferation of NO-donor complexes, rates of NO release and the redox state of the liberated NO from these compounds are neither predictable nor controllable to any practical extent. C-nitroso compounds comprise a unique class of NO donors from which the rate of NO release and the oxidation state of the liberated NO can be precisely controlled by ...