Journal
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 477, Issue 4, Pages 1139-1153Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-022-04366-8
Keywords
Catnip; Nepetalactone; Iridoid monoterpenoids; Density-functional theory; Reactive sites
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- Higher Education Commission of Pakistan [21-436 SRGP/RD/HEC/2014]
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This research investigated the electronic and spectral properties of nepetalactones and explored their potential in the development of new derivatives and mosquito repellents.
Nepetalactones belongs to the group of iridoid monoterpenoids, which are present in the aerial parts of nepeta plants. Nepetalactone is an attractant to feline animals causing euphoric effects, while it is a repellent to mosquitoes and cockroaches. It is also a pheromone for several insect aphid species. The main objective of this research was to study the electronic and spectral properties of nepetalactones. We investigated its structural properties using hybrid density-functional theory of B3LYP and WB97XD functional with the 6-311++G(d,p) basis set to optimize the geometry, and then computed the electronic structure, HOMO-LUMO, natural bond orbitals, molecular electronic potential and its contour map. We also obtained spectral signatures of NMR, IR and UV-Vis, and compared them with experimental data from the literature. The DFT study provided different electronic and spectral information that will be of value for further research on making new derivatives of nepetalactones for commercial purposes. Nepetalactones have a promising future in the development of novel mosquito repellents for the control of malaria and arboviral diseases.
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