Molecules 2010, 15(10), 6956-6973; doi:10.3390/molecules15106956
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Evaluation of Antioxidant Capacity and Synergistic Associations of Quinonemethide Triterpenes and Phenolic Substances from Maytenus ilicifolia (Celastraceae)

Vânia Aparecida de Freitas Formenton Macedo dos Santos 1 , Daniela Pereira dos Santos 2 , Ian Castro-Gamboa 1 , Maria Valnice Boldrin Zanoni 2  and Maysa Furlan 1,* email
1 Núcleo de Bioensaios, Biossíntese e Ecofisiologia de Produtos Naturais – NuBBE – Departamento de Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, CP 355,14801-970 Araraquara-SP, Brazil 2 Departamento de Química Analítica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, CP 355, 14801-970 Araraquara-SP, Brazil
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 27 August 2010; in revised form: 13 September 2010 / Accepted: 24 September 2010 / Published: 11 October 2010
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antioxidants)
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Abstract: This work describes the isolation of the secondary metabolites identified as the quinonemethides maytenin (1) and pristimerin (2) from Maytenus ilicifolia extracts obtained from root barks of adult plants and roots of seedlings and their quantification by high performance liquid chromatography coupled to a diode array detector. The electrochemical profiles obtained from cyclic voltammetry and a coulometric detector coupled to high-performance liquid chromatography contributed to the evaluation of their antioxidant capacity. The antioxidant properties of individual components and the crude extracts of the root barks of Maytenus ilicifolia were compared and the possible synergistic associations of quinonemethide triterpenes and phenolic substances were investigated by using rutin as a model phenolic compound.
Keywords: antioxidant; high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrochemical detection (HPLC-EICD); cyclic voltammetry (CV); quinonemethide; flavonoid

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Aparecida de Freitas Formenton Macedo dos Santos, V.; Pereira dos Santos, D.; Castro-Gamboa, I.; Zanoni, M.V.B.; Furlan, M. Evaluation of Antioxidant Capacity and Synergistic Associations of Quinonemethide Triterpenes and Phenolic Substances from Maytenus ilicifolia (Celastraceae). Molecules 2010, 15, 6956-6973.

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Aparecida de Freitas Formenton Macedo dos Santos V, Pereira dos Santos D, Castro-Gamboa I, Zanoni MVB, Furlan M. Evaluation of Antioxidant Capacity and Synergistic Associations of Quinonemethide Triterpenes and Phenolic Substances from Maytenus ilicifolia (Celastraceae). Molecules. 2010; 15(10):6956-6973.

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Aparecida de Freitas Formenton Macedo dos Santos, Vânia; Pereira dos Santos, Daniela; Castro-Gamboa, Ian; Zanoni, Maria Valnice Boldrin; Furlan, Maysa. 2010. "Evaluation of Antioxidant Capacity and Synergistic Associations of Quinonemethide Triterpenes and Phenolic Substances from Maytenus ilicifolia (Celastraceae)." Molecules 15, no. 10: 6956-6973.

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