A new acylated flavone glycoside with antioxidant and radical scavenging activities from Teucrium polium leaves

Abstract

The antioxidant properties of six flavones from Teucrium polium L., one of them isolated for the first time, have been established through the determination of their abilities to inhibit free radicals using DPPH, ABTS radicals and ORAC test. The structure of the new metabolite has been elucidated by 1-D (¹H, ¹³C and DEPT) and 2-D (COSY, TOCSY, HSQC, CIGAR) NMR experiments and by ESI Q-TOF HRMS analysis. Flavones 1–3 presented an efficacious activity towards the stable DPPH radical. Analogously, compounds 2 and 3 resulted significantly active also versus ABTS cation radical. On the basis of the comparable bioactivity of luteolin-based compounds, the presence of an ortho-dihydroxy substitution in the flavone B-ring is supposed to be the structural feature responsible for the antioxidant activity.

Keywords:

• Teucrium polium
• Labiatae
• flavones
• spectroscopic analysis
• radical scavenging activity

Acknowledgements

The authors are very grateful to Prof. Angela Chambery of Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli) for the ESI Q-TOF HRMS spectra and Prof. Assunta Esposito of Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli) for the botanical consultancy for plant materials.