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Mechanism of dopamine hydroxylation reaction. Initially, oxidation of dopamine to a quinone methide and hydration of the resultant quinone methide was proposed to be the route for the biosynthesis of norepinephrine. However, studies with labeled oxygen revealed that the hydroxylation is accompanied by the incorporation of one atom of molecular oxygen into dopamine by a specific dopamine-β-hydroxylase reaction.
