American Chemical Society, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 28(61), p. 6942-6948, 2013
DOI: 10.1021/jf401174b
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The copigmentation binding constants (K) for the interaction of different copigments with oenin (major red wine anthocyanin) were determined. All tests were performed in a 12% ethanol citrate buffer solution (0.2 M) at pH 3.5, with an ionic strength adjusted to 0.5 M by the addition of sodium chloride. Over the past years, several copigmentation studies were made and many copigments were tested, but none of them included prodelphinidin B3 or a dimeric-type adduct like oenin-(O)-catechin, probably due to the difficulty in obtaining them. The data yielded from this study allowed concluding that (a) the presence of a pyrogallol group in the B ring of the flavan-3-ol structure slightly increases the copimentation potential and (b) within all copigments tested oenin-(O)-catechin was revealed to be the best. According to computational studies performed on epicatechin/oenin, epigallocatechin/oenin, procyanidin B3/oenin, and oenin-(O)-catechin/oenin complexes, the ΔGbinding energy of the oenin-(O)-catechin/oenin complex is the most negative compared to the other copigmentation complexes, hence being more stable and thermodynamically favored. All structural data show that oenin-(O)-catechin and epigallocatechin are closer to the pigment molecule, which is in accordance with these two copigments having the highest experimental copigmentation binding constants for oenin.