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Study of Antioxidant Potency of Selected Compounds Present in Shepherd’s Purse, Capsella bursa- pastoris (L.) Medik.

Shepherd’s purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik., is a wild plant commonly used in traditional medicine for various purposes. In this work, we evaluated the antioxidant potential of selected phytoactochemicals present in this plant (flavonoids and phenolic acids) using in silico approach in order to better understand mechanisms underlying this type of bioactivity. Hence, we studied thermodynamics of hydrogen atom transfer and sequential proton loss electron transfer. Our results indicate studied compounds as compounds with good or high free radical scavenging potency. So, these compounds are able to efficiently deactivate various free radicals. Based on these results, it seems that the second hydrogen atom transfer and second sequential proton loss electron transfer processes as less energy demanding than the first ones.

antioxidant potency ; Shepherd’s purse ; phenolic compounds

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