ABSTRACT
trans-Resveratrol (RSV) is a natural phenolic molecule of the stilbene family known for its anti-oxidant properties in the field of nutraceuticals and cosmetics. Its production by grapevine cell suspensions is induced by the addition to the culture medium of elicitor compounds, methyl jasmonate (MeJA) and cyclodextrins (CDs). Physico-chemical studies were performed to understand the mechanism of action of CDs on this bioproduction of RSV. Inclusion complexes of RSV in CDs were first observed and then interactions with MeJA were identified using various analytical techniques such as UV and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopies, mass spectrometry (MS) and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC).
ABSTRACT
Water-soluble cyclodextrins (CDs) bearing two nitrogen atoms as metal coordinating sites have been synthesized. An appropriate phosphane could be included within their cavity through the primary face to form self-assembled PNN supramolecular edifices. Once the PNN ligands were coordinated to platinum, the resulting complexes proved to be very effective as catalysts in a domino reaction, where a Pt-catalyzed reduction of nitrobenzene was followed by a Paal-Knorr pyrrole reaction. In the nitrobenzene reduction, the modified CDs acted both as first- and second-sphere ligands. Contrary to an acyclic glucopyranose-based NN ligand unable to interact with a phosphane ligand, the CD-based PNN ligands stabilized the catalytic species in water by supramolecular means. Interestingly, the product and the water-soluble Pt-catalyst could be recovered in two different phases once the reaction was complete.
