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Quantum chemical investigation of the detection properties of alternariol and alternariol monomethyl ether

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Alternariol and alternariol monomethyl ether are mycotoxins occasionally found in food and beverages that have been contaminated by certain fungi of the Alternaria genus. Conformers, tautomers, anions, and analogs of alternariol were geometry optimized using the Becke, three-parameter, Lee-Yang-Parr (B3LYP) density functional. Electronic structural analysis provided frontier orbitals, molecular electronic potential maps, and vibrational assignments. Optimized conformations of alternariol are within 5.2 kJ mol−1 of the most stable conformation and share very similar molecular orbital properties. Vibrational assignments for the calculated infrared and Raman spectra are reported and correspond with experimental spectra. Tautomers are 130–180 kJ mol−1 higher in energy and possess unique molecular orbital properties. Methylated and demethylated analogs shared similar properties to alternariol. Deprotonation of hydroxyl groups of alternariol, alternariol monomethyl ether, and methylated analogs influences the molecular orbital properties and molecular electrostatic potential maps.

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This research was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology grant number 106-2917-I-564-017.

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  1. The Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei, 10622, Taiwan

    Yi-Shu Tu

  2. Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research, National Center of Agricultural Utilization Research, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, IL, 61614, USA

    Yi-Shu Tu & Michael Appell

  3. Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan

    Yi-Shu Tu & Yufeng J. Tseng

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan

    Yufeng J. Tseng

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Tu, YS., Tseng, Y.J. & Appell, M. Quantum chemical investigation of the detection properties of alternariol and alternariol monomethyl ether. Struct Chem 30, 1749–1759 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-019-01302-3

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