“…Several of the effects of phenylhydrazine are oxygen-dependent. These include its inactivation of papain , amine oxidase (Patek and Hellerman, 1974), lactoperoxidase and triosephosphate dehydrogenase , horse radish peroxidase and thyroid peroxidase (Hidaka and , its inhibition of the respiration of mitochondria and of submitochondrial particles (Asami, 1968), and its desensitization of grasshopper muscle (McDonald, 1972). Aside from the involvement of phenyldiazene as an intermediate (Cauquis and Genies, 1968; Itano, 1970), the catalytic effect of Cu2+ (Eberson and Persson, 1962;Audrieth and Ogg, 1951) and the formation of H2O2 (Cohen and Hochstein, 1964; Audrieth and Ogg, 1951), very little is known about the air oxidation of phenylhydrazine in buffered aqueous solutions.…”