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Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society (BKCS)

ISSN 0253-2964(Print)
ISSN 1229-5949(Online)
Volume 33, Number 11
BKCSDE 33(11)
November 20, 2012 
 
Title
 DFT/B3LYP Study of the Substituent Effects on the Reaction Enthalpies of the Antioxidant Mechanisms of Magnolol Derivatives in the Gas-Phase and Water
Author
 Meysam Najafi*, Mohammad Najafi, Houshang Najafi
Keywords
 Antioxidant, Magnolol, Solvent effect, Substituent effect
Abstract
 In this paper, the study of various ortho- and meta-substituted Magnolol derivatives is presented. The reaction enthalpies related to three antioxidant action mechanisms HAT, SET-PT and SPLET for substituted Magnolols have been calculated using DFT/B3LYP method in gas-phase and water. Calculated results show that electronwithdrawing substituents increase the bond dissociation enthalpy (BDE), ionization potential (IP) and oxidation/ reduction enthalpy (O/RE), while electron-donating ones cause a rise in the proton dissociation enthalpy (PDE) and proton affinity (PA). In ortho- position, substituents show larger effect on reaction enthalpies than in metaposition. In comparison to gas-phase, water attenuates the substituent effect on all reaction enthalpies. In gasphase, BDEs are lower than PAs and IPs, i.e. HAT represents the thermodynamically preferred pathway. On the other hand, SPLET mechanism represents the thermodynamically favored process in water. Results show that calculated enthalpies can be successfully correlated with Hammett constants (σm) of the substituted Magnolols. Furthermore, calculated IP and PA values for substituted Magnolols show linear dependence on the energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital (EHOMO).
Page
 3607 - 3617
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