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- Title
Antioxidant Activity of Hispidin Oligomers from Medicinal Fungi: A DFT Study.
- Authors
Anouar, El Hassane; Ali Shah, Syed Adnan; Hassan, Normahanim Binti; Moussaoui, Najoua El; Ahmad, Rohaya; Zulkefeli, Mohd; Weber, Jean-Frédéric F.
- Abstract
Hispidin oligomers are styrylpyrone pigments isolated from the medicinal fungi Inonotus xeranticus and Phellinus linteus. They exhibit diverse biological activities and strong free radical scavenging activity. To rationalize the antioxidant activity of a series of four hispidin oligomers and determine the favored mechanism involved in free radical scavenging, DFT calculations were carried out at the B3P86/6-31+G (d, p) level of theory in gas and solvent. The results showed that bond dissociation enthalpies of OH groups of hispidin oligomers (ArOH) and spin density delocalization of related radicals (ArÓ) are the appropriate parameters to clarify the differences between the observed antioxidant activities for the four oligomers. The effect of the number of hydroxyl groups and presence of a catechol moiety conjugated to a double bond on the antioxidant activity were determined. Thermodynamic and kinetic studies showed that the PC-ET mechanism is the main mechanism involved in free radical scavenging. The spin density distribution over phenoxyl radicals allows a better understanding of the hispidin oligomers formation.
- Subjects
OLIGOMERS; POLYMERS; FUNGI; MEDICINAL plants; PHELLINUS
- Publication
Molecules, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 3, p3489
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules19033489