Medicinal Plant Using Ground State Stabilization of Natural Antioxidant Curcumin by Keto-Enol Tautomerisation

Abstract

Abstract Curcumin is a medicinal agent that exhibits anti-cancer properties and bioactive pigment in Turmeric has a huge therapeutic value. It has a keto-enol moiety that gives rise to many of its chemical properties. A recent study has shown that keto-enol tautomerisation at this moiety is implicated the effect of curcumin. The tautomerisation of curcumin in methanol, acetone and acetonitrile are used in nuclear magnetic resonance (1H, 13C) spectroscopy. It was characterized using UV, IR and Raman spectral values. The molecular electrostatic potential surface of the Curcumin has been visualized in electropositive potential in the region of the CH3+ group and most electronegative potential in the two oxygen atom has very strong binding group. In the following, the modality of structural and thermo dynamical parameters, electrophilicity (ω), chemical potential (μ), chemical hardness (η) and electronic charge transfer confirms the local reactivity. The rate constant of tautomerisation of curcumin shows strong temperature dependence. Molecular electrostatic potential and Temperature dependence of various thermodynamic properties like $$ \left( {{\hbox{C}}_{\rm{p,m}}^{0},\;{\hbox{S}}_{\rm{m}}^{0},\;{\hbox{and}}\;{\hbox{H}}_{\rm{m}}^{0} } \right) $$ Cp,m0,Sm0,andHm0 is increase with increase in temperature for monomer and dimer of various electrical fields.

Keywords

• Curcumin
• NMR
• UV
• HOMO-LUMO
• MEP