Flavones’ and Flavonols’ Antiradical Structure–Activity Relationship—A Quantum Chemical Study

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Maciej Spiegel1, Tadeusz Andruniów2, Zbigniew Sroka1
1Department of Pharmacognosy and Herbal Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska 211A, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland
2Advanced Materials Engineering and Modelling Group, Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, M. Smoluchowskiego 23, 50-372 Wroclaw, Poland

Tóm tắt

Flavonoids are known for their antiradical capacity, and this ability is strongly structure-dependent. In this research, the activity of flavones and flavonols in a water solvent was studied with the density functional theory methods. These included examination of flavonoids’ molecular and radical structures with natural bonding orbitals analysis, spin density analysis and frontier molecular orbitals theory. Calculations of determinants were performed: specific, for the three possible mechanisms of action—hydrogen atom transfer (HAT), electron transfer–proton transfer (ETPT) and sequential proton loss electron transfer (SPLET); and the unspecific—reorganization enthalpy (RE) and hydrogen abstraction enthalpy (HAE). Intramolecular hydrogen bonding, catechol moiety activity and the probability of electron density swap between rings were all established. Hydrogen bonding seems to be much more important than the conjugation effect, because some structures tends to form more intramolecular hydrogen bonds instead of being completely planar. The very first hydrogen abstraction mechanism in a water solvent is SPLET, and the most privileged abstraction site, indicated by HAE, can be associated with the C3 hydroxyl group of flavonols and C4’ hydroxyl group of flavones. For the catechol moiety, an intramolecular reorganization to an o-benzoquinone-like structure occurs, and the ETPT is favored as the second abstraction mechanism.

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