New insight into the oxidation of Fe(II) by desferrioxamine B (DFB): spectrophotometric and capillary electrophoresis (CE) study

Results on the previously described irreversible redox reaction taking place between iron(II) and desferrioxamine B (DFB) under anaerobic conditions have been complemented by additional capillary electrophoresis (CE) and kinetic studies in the present work. Reduction of the oxidizing agent, DFB to monoamide derivative, was confirmed by CE technique and suggestion for the most probable kinetically active species and mechanism of the initial step is discussed in the paper.