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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 116, Issue 48, Pages 14089-14099Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp307782y
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- Conseil Regional du Limousin
- COST [FA1003, CM0804]
- FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/30294/2006, SFRH/BPD/72652/2010, SFRH/BD/70053/2010, SFRH/BD/31359/2006]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/31359/2006, SFRH/BD/70053/2010, SFRH/BD/30294/2006] Funding Source: FCT
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The aim of this study is to investigate interactions possibly taking place in red wine between three flavanols (copigments, CP), i.e., two epimeric vinylcatechin dimers (CP1 and CP2) and catechin dimer B3 (CP3), and a specific pigment resulting from the condensation between the main grape anthocyanin malvidin 3-O-glucoside (oenin) and catechin, catechin-(4 -> 8)-oenin. By comparison with our previous work on oenin itself, the influence of the catechin moiety of the anthocyanin in the binding is established. The thermodynamic parameters show that both vinylcatechin dimers exhibit a higher affinity for catechin-(4 -> 8)-oenin, in comparison with proanthocyanidin B3, as previously observed with oenin. However, the corresponding binding constants are weaker, probably due to steric hindrance in the anthocyanin brought by the flavanol nucleus. Consequently, catechin-(4 -> 8)-oenin should be much less stabilized by copigmentation in hydroalcoholic solution than oenin. Quantum mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations are also performed to interpret the binding data, to specify the relative arrangement of the pigment and copigment molecules within the complexes, and to interpret their absorption properties in the visible range.
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