Partial Synthesis and Structural Elucidation of the Oxidative Metabolites of Lycopene Identified in Tomato Paste, Tomato Juice, and Human Serum
作者:Frederick Khachik、Andrea Steck、Urs A. Niggli、Hanspeter Pfander
DOI:10.1021/jf980322a
日期:1998.12.1
Two oxidative metabolites of lycopene in tomato paste, tomato juice, and human serum have been prepared by partial synthesis from oxidation of lycopene with m-chloroperbenzoic acid (MCPBA) followed by acidic hydrolysis. Extensive H-1 and C-13 NMR spectroscopy studies of the purified products of these reactions have confirmed that the major oxidation products of lycopene (I) are lycopene 1,2-epoxide (II) and lycopene 5,6-epoxide (III) (tentative assignment). Several diepoxides of lycopene, namely, lycopene 1,2;5,6-diepoxide (IV), lycopene 1,2;5',6'-diepoxide (V), lycopene 5,6;5',6'-diepoxide (VI), and lycopene 1,2;1',2'-diepoxide (VII), which were formed as minor products, were tentatively identified. Whereas lycopene 1,2-epoxide was found to be fairly stable, lycopene 5,6-epoxide underwent cyclization to form a mixture of diastereomeric epoxides A (VIII, major) and B (IX, minor). The trivial names of 2,6-cyclolycopene-l,5-epoxides A (VIII) and B (IX) have been assigned to these compounds with a novel five-membered ring end-group. Hydrolysis of VIII and IX in dilute solutions of sulfuric acid gave an epimeric mixture of 2,6-cyclolycopene-1,5-diols A (X, major) and B (XI, minor). During chromatographic purification on n-silica gel, II and III partially cyclized to 1,16-didehydro-2,6-cyclolycopen-5-ol (XII) and epoxides VIII and IX partially converted to their respective diols, X and XI. In the course of isolation and purification, the oxidation products of lycopene with MCPBA were found to be extremely sensitive to chromatography on n-silica gel and underwent rearrangement to a number of cyclic epoxides and diols. Upon acid treatment of the mixture of lycopene epoxides, a bicyclic diepoxide of lycopene was formed, which was identified as lycopene 1,6;2,5-diepoxide (XIII). Diols X and XI have also been detected at low concentrations in tomato paste, tomato juice, and human serum. All synthetic compounds have been fully characterized by NMR, UV-vis, and MS.