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ACS OMEGA
Volume 7, Issue 32, Pages 27937-27949Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c01679
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- Grant Agency of the Ministry of the Education, Science, Research, and Sport of the Slovak Republic [VEGA 1/0929/16]
- Faculty of Science, P. J. Safarik University in in Kosice [VVGS-PF-2020-1432]
- EU structural funds [ITMS2014+: 313011V455]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion/FEDER funds [FIS2017-84318-R, PID2020-113900RB- I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033]
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This study reports a structural analysis of polyphenol complexes with iron and copper under different conditions, using various spectroscopic techniques and investigating fluorescence quenching. Interaction of polyphenols with iron results in color change and fluorescence quenching, facilitating Raman inspection of manuscripts.
In this work, a structural analysis of the polyphenol complexes with iron and copper at several conditions is reported. The investigated polyphenols were tannic acid, gallic acid, pyrogallol, and syringic acid, being components and molecular models of the gallnuts usually employed in the past in fabrication of iron gall inks (IGIs). Commercial tannic acid extracted from gallnuts, which is a complex mixture of different gallotannins and simpler galloylglucoses, was also employed in this analysis. This analysis comprised the use of Raman, Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR), UV- vis absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopy. The complexation of iron with these molecules leads to a strong change in color due to the deep restructuring of the polyphenol that can be clearly seen by Raman and FTIR spectra. Three main Raman bands appeared at 1450-1490 cm(-1) (nu 1), 1320-1345 cm(-1) (nu 2), and 400-650 cm(-1) (nu 3), which are characteristic of the metal complexes. The structural changes of the polyphenol complexes with iron were also investigated at different pHs and different polyphenol/iron stoichiometries. Other effects of the interaction of polyphenols with iron are the pH decrease of the mixture upon metal complexation and fluorescence quenching induced by the interaction of iron. This quenching is important since it facilitates the Raman inspection of manuscripts since polyphenols show a strong fluorescence emission that overlaps the Raman spectrum. Furthermore, DFT calculations were performed for the first time on the gallic acid complex with iron in order to elaborate a detailed assignment of the vibrational modes of polyphenols and their metal complexes, something that was missed in previous applications of Raman to IGIs.
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