Double Schiff Base Adducts of 2,3-Butanedione with Glycine: Formation of Pyrazine Rings with the Participation of Amino Acid Carbon Atoms
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Abstract
The 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds are well-known for their ability to undergo a one-to-one interaction with amino acids and generate aroma-active pyrazines through the Strecker reaction. An earlier publication reported the generation of tetrahydropyrazine moiety from the double addition of amino acids to 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds. To evaluate the potential of this intermediate to undergo oxidation and form pyrazines, a model system composed of glycine and 2,3-butanedione was evaluated under pyrolytic conditions at 250 °C, as well as under pressurized high-temperature conditions at 120 °C. These studies have indicated the unexpected formation of 2,3-dimethylpyrazine and 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine in addition to the expected tetramethylpyrazine. Isotope-labeling studies using [¹³C-1]glycine (98%), [¹³C-2]glycine (99%), and [¹⁵N]glycine (98%) have shown that, as expected, tetramethylpyrazine was completely unlabeled, whereas 51% of 2,3-dimethylpyrazine incorporated two ¹³C-2 atoms from glycine, 20% incorporated one atom, and 29% was unlabeled. Furthermore, the label incorporation pattern in the major mass spectral fragment at m/z 67 indicated that the C-2 atoms originating from glycine reside in the ring system of 2,3-dimethylpyrazine. The formation of doubly labeled 2,3-dimethylpyrazine was rationalized through proposition of the double addition of glycine to 2,3-butanedione, and the formation of singly labeled isotopomer was justified by sequential Schiff base formation of 2-amino-butan-3-one first with the Strecker aldehyde and then followed by glycine. This pathway can also generate the double-labeled pyrazine. Finally, the unlabeled pyrazine was proposed to form through the Strecker reaction of 2,3-butanedione and its degradation product glyoxal with glycine. The proposed pathways were also consistent with the observed label distribution patterns of 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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