ndustrial Crops and Products
Volume 64, February 01, 2015, Pages 135-151
a
Centro de Química da Madeira (CQM), Centro de Ciências Exactas e
da Engenharia da Universidade da Madeira, Campus Universitário da
Penteada, Funchal, Portugal
b Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas S/N, Jaén, Spain
b Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas S/N, Jaén, Spain
Abstract
Phenolic compounds
present high antioxidant activity and, therefore, health promoting
effects, serving as a type of preventive medicine. Hence, research on
the chemical composition of plants
with potential antioxidant value is of high interest.Forest cleaning,
thinning, and pruning are beneficial activities that help maintaining
healthy forests. In addition, they can provide vegetal material as
source of valuable bioactive compounds that can have health promoting
effects. In this work, the phenolic composition of several trees native
to Madeira Archipelago (Portugal)
was studied. Specifically, the leaves from Olea europaea ssp.
cerasiformis, Ilex perado ssp. perado, Clethra arborea, and Heberdenia
excelsa have been analyzed. The screening of the main phenolic compounds
from their methanolic extracts has been carried out using
high-performance liquid chromatography with electrospray ionization mass
spectrometric detection (HPLC-ESI-MSn). This is the first
report on the phenolic composition of these Madeira native species, and
more than 100 compounds have been detected and identified or tentatively
characterized. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.
Author keywords
Endemic species; Flavonoid; Macaronesia; Procyanidin; Tandem mass spectrometry
Indexed keywords
Engineering controlled terms: Antioxidants;
Biochemistry; Chemical cleaning; Chromatography; Diagnosis; Electrospray
ionization; Flavonoids; High performance liquid chromatography;
Ionization of liquids; Liquid chromatography; Mass spectrometry;
Phenols; Plants (botany); Spectrometry
Endemic species; Flavonoid; Macaronesia; Procyanidins; Tandem mass spectrometry
Engineering main heading: Forestry
GEOBASE Subject Index: antioxidant; bioactivity; broad-leaved forest; chemical composition; chemotaxonomy; endemic species; forest health; leaf; medicinal plant; methanol; new record; phenolic compound; plant extract
PaperChem Variable: Chemical Composition; Forests; Leaves; Liquid Chromatography; Phenols; Portugal; Thinning; Trees
Regional Index: Madeira; Portugal
Species Index: Clethra arborea; Heberdenia excelsa; Ilex perado; Olea europaea
