Reactivity of resveratrol and its subunits upon low energy electron collisions
Ely Giancoli Ferreira de Miranda
Univerity of Sao Paulo, Brazil
10:30 am – Thursday 15th September 2022 – D42 Library
We report a computational study of the anion states of the resveratrol (RV) and resorcinol (RS) molecules, also investigating dissociative electron attachment (DEA) pathways. RV has well known beneficial effects in human health, and its antioxidant activity was previously associated with DEA reactions producing hydrogen gas. However, the molecule molecule has 29 atoms and can be considered large for scattering calculations. Therefore, RV was decomposed into resorcinol (RS), ethene and phenol (Ph) subunits. To this extent, the smaller RS molecule could be a more suitable prototype for the DEA reaction producing molecular hydrogen, justifying the study of both the RS and RV molecules.
