6109. N-Methylphenazonium Methosulfate

Nomenclature

CAS number: 299-11-6
5-Methylphenazinium methyl sulfate; phenazine methosulfate.
C14H14N2O4S; mol wt 306.34.
C 54.89%, H 4.61%, N 9.14%, O 20.89%, S 10.47%.

Description and references

Prepn: Kehrmann, Ber. 46, 341 (1913); Hillemann, ibid. 71, 34 (1938); Dickens, McIlwain, Biochem. J. 32, 1615 (1938). Mutagenicity study: S. Venitt, C. Crofton-Sleigh, Mutat. Res. 68, 107 (1979).

Chemical structure

Properties

Flat yellow to brown parallelepipeds from alc, mp 155-157° (Hillemann); mp 167° (Dickens). Oxidation-reduction potential at 30° and pH 7: Eh = +0.080 v.

Use

As an electron carrier in place of the flavine enzyme of Warburg in the hexosemonophosphate system: Dickens, loc. cit. In the prepn of succinic dehydrogenase: Green et al., J. Biol. Chem. 217, 551 (1955).