Gas-Phase Ligation of Fe+ and Cu+ Ions with Some Flavonoids
- 6 October 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- Vol. 54 (22), 8391-8396
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jf061401m
Abstract
It was assumed that gas-phase ligation of metal monocations by flavonoids might provide some insight on the intrinsic antioxidant activity of the latter. Thus, the ligation of Fe+ and Cu+ ions by apigenin (1), luteolin (2), kaempferol (3), quercetin (4), myricetin (5), and naringenin (6) was investigated in the gas phase in a Fourier transform mass spectrometer (FTMS). Both of the metal ions, which were produced by laser desorption ionization (LDI), bind consecutively to two neutral flavonoid molecules either with or without the simultaneous loss of some part (H, CO, H2O) of the latter. The flavonoids are present in the instrument at steady concentrations. The formation of flavonoid positive ions by charge exchange is also a common observation but is accompanied, in some cases, by a loss of H, CO, or H2O fragments. The reaction paths and observed fragmentations are presented. The results are supported by DFT B3LYP calculations that indicate a preference for metal ion attack at C-ring and not at the B-ring site considered to be mainly responsible for flavonoid antioxidant activity.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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