QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-FRAGMENTATION RELATIONSHIP TECHNIQUE APPLIED FOR DISCRIMINATION OF cis--OCIMENE AND trans--OCIMENE FROM LAVENDER OIL

Authors

  • Lucian Copolovici Deputy Director of RDI Institute in Natural and Technical Sciences of “Aurel Vlaicu” University
  • Dumitru CONDRAT Faculty of Food Engineering, Tourism and Environmental Protection, “Aurel Vlaicu” University, Romania, 2 Elena Dragoi St., Arad 310330
  • Dumitru CONDRAT Faculty of Food Engineering, Tourism and Environmental Protection, “Aurel Vlaicu” University, Romania, 2 Elena Dragoi St., Arad 310330
  • Nicolae DINCA Faculty of Food Engineering, Tourism and Environmental Protection, “Aurel Vlaicu” University, Romania, 2 Elena Dragoi St., Arad 310330
  • Nicolae DINCA Faculty of Food Engineering, Tourism and Environmental Protection, “Aurel Vlaicu” University, Romania, 2 Elena Dragoi St., Arad 310330

Keywords:

quantitative structure-fragmentation relationship, quantum chemical calculation, differential mass spectrometry, lavender oil, ocimene

Abstract

Elucidation by mass spectrometry of isomeric structures only by using a library search presents difficulties due to the high similarity of the spectra. So, the GC-MS analysis of trans-b-ocimene and cis-b-ocimene, biologically active compounds from lavender oil, offers contradictory results when are used mass spectral libraries and retention indeces database. Under these circumstances, supplementation of analysis with an independent path is absolutely necessary to clarify the configuration of these compounds. Quantitative structure-fragmentation relationships (QSFR) techniques offer such a possibility. These techniques use thermochemical data obtained through quantum chemical calculation (QCC) for structures which should be discriminated against. In our paper we opted for an ordering algorithm (ORD) which gives good results in the case of high similarity spectra. ORD uses the inverse sorting of the relative intensities’ row of the main isobaric ions with the corresponding enthalpies’ row. The result thus obtained validates the structures achieved by retention indices. One of the advantages of this approach is that the use of these three analytical variants can provide high accuracy of analysis without the direct use of chemical standards.

 

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Published

2017-08-07