Kinetics of oxidative decarboxylation of L-citrulline by permanganate

Abstract

Potassium permanganate is a good oxidizing againt L-citrulline has an – SH group which is rapidly oxidized by potassium permanganate. In the present study it was observed that two equivalent of permanaganate were consumed by five equivalent of L-citrulline. Beside this an attempt to correlate the rate of oxidation with acid concentration, with various Hypothesis for the mechanism of acid catalysis were also observed.

Keywords

• Permanaganate
• L-citrulline
• oxidatived decarboxylation