Hydrogen bonds aqueous systems

There has been some evidence of a higher antioxidant effect when both flavonoids and a-tocopherol are present in systems like LDL, low-density lipoproteins (Jia et al., 1998 Zhu et al, 1999). LDL will incorporate a-tocopherol, while flavonoids will be present on the outside in the aqueous surroundings. A similar distribution is to be expected for oil-in-water emulsion type foods. In the aqueous environment, the rate of the inhibition reaction for the flavonoid is low due to hydrogen bonding and the flavonoid will not behave as a chain-breaking antioxidant. Likewise, in beer, none of the polyphenols present in barley showed any protective effect on radical processes involved in beer staling, which is an oxidative process (Andersen et al, 2000). The polyphenols have, however, been found to act synergistically... 

The solution phase is modeled explicitly by the sequential addition of solution molecules in order to completely fill the vacuum region that separates repeated metal slabs (Fig. 4.2a) up to the known density of the solution. The inclusion of explicit solvent molecules allow us to directly follow the influence of specific intermolecular interactions (e.g., hydrogen bonding in aqueous systems or electron polarization of the metal surface) that influence the binding energies of different intermediates and the reaction energies and activation barriers for specific elementary steps. 

Figure 4.13 The transition state for CO + OH coupling to form COOH on the Pt(lll) surface. The transition state is stabilized in the aqueous model system through hydrogen bonding between the hydroxyl species and a nearby water molecule [Janik and Neurock, 2006].

The values of % and 8 are much less widely available for aqueous systems than for nonaqueous systems, however. This reflects the relative lack of success of the solution thermodynamic theory for aqueous systems. The concept of the solubility parameter has been modified to improve predictive capabilities by splitting the solubility parameter into several parameters which account for different contributions, e.g., nonpolar, polar, and hydrogen bonding interactions [89,90],... 

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