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Antioxidant Capacities and Analysis of Phenolic Compounds in Three Endemic Nolana Species by HPLC-PDA-ESI-MS

Journal

MOLECULES
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 11490-11507

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules200611490

Keywords

Chilean plants; Atacama Desert; phenolics; antioxidant capacity; HPLC-MS; Paposo Valley; Nolana

Funding

  1. National Fund of Scientific and Technological Development of Chile (Fondecyt) [1140178]
  2. FONDEQUIP [masas-TOF-EQM14002.]

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The antioxidant features, polyphenolic composition and chromatographic fingerprints of the aerial parts from three Chilean endemic plants from the Paposo Valley located on the cost of the Atacama Desert were investigated for the first time using high pressure liquid chromatography coupled with photodiode array detector and electrospray ionization mass analysis (HPLC-PDA-ESI-MS) and spectroscopic methods. The phenolic fingerprints obtained for the plants were compared and correlated with the antioxidant capacities measured by the bleaching of the DPPH radical, the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and quantification of the total content of phenolics and flavonoids measured by spectroscopic methods. Thirty phenolics were identified for the first time for these species, mostly phenolic acids, flavanones, flavonols and some of their glycoside derivatives, together with three saturated fatty acids (stearic, palmitic and arachidic acids). Nolana ramosissima showed the highest antioxidant activity (26.35 +/- 1.02 g/mL, 116.07 +/- 3.42 M Trolox equivalents/g dry weight and 81.23% +/- 3.77% of inhibition in the DPPH, FRAP and scavenging activity (SA) assays, respectively), followed by N. aplocaryoides (85.19 +/- 1.64 g/mL, 65.87 +/- 2.33 M TE/g DW and 53.27% +/- 3.07%) and N. leptophylla (124.71 +/- 3.01, 44.23 +/- 5.18 M TE/g DW and 38.63% +/- 1.85%).

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