An asymmetric performance between mangiferin and isomangiferin as antioxidants

Abstract

Abstract The electronic performance between mangiferin and isomangiferin as antioxidants was achieved using electron and hydrogen atom transfer mechanisms at DFT/B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) level. According to theoretical properties of these molecules a structural and electronic symmetry among 3-hydroxyl of xanthone, 2’-hydroxyl of sugar, and ether moiety of sugar were stablished. The sugar moiety changes on 2 and 4 positions showed that isomangiferin is more potent than mangiferin by electron transfer and mangiferin by hydrogen transfer. Hydrogen bonds between sugar and resorcinol rings can be involved to their electronic behavior and favored conformations of low energies. Sugar moiety in both compounds is responsible for the antioxidant capacity increase in xanthone ring.