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ArticleAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Food Grade Synthesis of Hetero-Coupled Biflavones and 3D-Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) Modeling of Antioxidant Activity.

Hongling Zheng, Xin Yang, Qiuyu Zhang, Joanne Yi Hui Toy, Dejian Huang

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Hongling ZhengDepartment of Food Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117542, Singapore.ORCID 0009-0005-3502-383X
Xin YangDavid H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Qiuyu ZhangDepartment of Food Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117542, Singapore.
Joanne Yi Hui ToyDepartment of Food Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117542, Singapore.
Dejian HuangDepartment of Food Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117542, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-2305-3960

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Ministry of education of Singapore Tier 1 grant A-8000983-01-00Science and Technology Project of Jiangsu Province BZ2022056
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Abstract

Biflavonoids are a unique subclass of dietary polyphenolic compounds known for their diverse bioactivities. Despite these benefits, these biflavonoids remain largely underexplored due to their limited natural availability and harsh conditions required for their synthesis, which restricts broader research and application in functional foods and nutraceuticals. To address this gap, we synthesized a library of rare biflavonoids using a radical-nucleophile coupling reaction previously reported by our group. The food grade coupling reaction under weakly alkaline water at room temperature led to isolation of 28 heterocoupled biflavones from 11 monomers, namely 3',4'-dihydroxyflavone, 5,3',4'-trihydroxyflavone, 6,3',4'-trihydroxyflavone, 7,3',4'-trihydroxyflavone, diosmetin, chrysin, acacetin, genistein, biochanin A, and wogonin. The structures of the dimers are characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and high-resolution mass spectroscopy (HRMS). In addition, we evaluated the antioxidant potential of these biflavones using a DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging assay and the DPPH value ranges between 0.75 to 1.82 mM of Trolox/mM of sample across the 28 synthesized dimers. Additionally, a three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) analysis was conducted to identify structural features associated with enhanced antioxidant activity. The partial least squares (PLS) regression QSAR model showed acceptable r

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antioxidant activitybiflavonesoxidative couplingQSAR

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PMID40563374
PMCPMC12189461

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