Antioxidant Properties of Aloe vera Components: A DFT Theoretical Evaluation.

Reza Nazifi S. Mohamad, et al.
Free radical research, 2019

Abstract

Prediction of the antioxidant activity of three Aloe vera components (aloesone, aloe-emodin, and isoeleutheol) was performed based on density functional theory calculations using the B3LYP hybrid functional and the 6-311++ G** basis set. Calculation of highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO), lowest occupied molecular orbital (LUMO), and Egap revealed that aloe-emodin has the lowest E_gap value, indicating good antioxidant activity. Also in terms of electron affinity, softness, electrophilicity, and chemical potential, aloe-emodin is a potent structure with potential high radical scavenging activity. Calculation of the ionisation potential revealed that isoeleutherol likely also possesses a high degree of antiradical scavenging. To study the conjugating system of the radicals, density plots of HOMO, natural bond orbital analyses, and spin density plots were used. According to calculations, the isoeleutherol radical is more delocalised and the most stable radical. Calculated proton affinity values revealed that the most probable antioxidant mechanism is sequential proton loss-electron transfer. Our results were compared with available experimental data. Published experimental data were found to correlate well with our theoretical predictions. These results support the usefulness of theoretical calculations not only for identifying potentially useful structures of studied compounds but also for predicting their relative activity.

Keywords

Antioxidants; DFT; free radicals; medicinal plants; theoretical calculations.

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