Macrowine 2021

A mechanistic investigation of H/D scrambling processes in flavonoids

Abstract

Several classes of flavonoids, such as anthocyanins, flavonols, flavanols and flavones, undergo a slow H/D exchange on aromatic ring A, leading to full deuteration at positions C(6) and C(8). Within the flavanol class, H-C(6) and H-C(8) of catechin and epicatechin are slowly exchanged in D2O to the corresponding deuterated analogues; even quercetin, a relevant flavonol representative, shows the same behaviour in a D2O/DMSOd6 1:1 solution. Detailed kinetic measurements of these H/D scrambling processes are here reported by exploiting the time-dependent changes of their peak areas in the 1H-NMR spectra taken at different temperatures. A unifying reaction mechanism is also proposed based on our detailed kinetic observations, even taking into account pH and solvent effects. Molecular modelling and QM calculations were also carried out to shed more light on several molecular details of the proposed mechanism.

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Publication date: September 16, 2021

Issue: Macrowine 2021

Type: Article

Authors

Graziano Guella

Biorganic Chemistry Lab/Dept. of Physics/University of Trento,Federico Bonaldo1, Fulvio Mattivi2, Daniele Catorci*, &, Panagiotis Arapitsas3, Graziano Guella1, * 1  Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; 2 Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO and C3A, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; 3 Department of Food Quality and Nutrition, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all’Adige, Italy; * D. Catorci passed away on June 27th, 2020

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Keywords

flavonoids; chemistry of polyphenols; h/d isotopic scrambling; reaction mechanism

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