A new approach to the design of antioxidants derived from 3,5,7,3′,4′-pentahydroxyflavone

Quercetin pentaacetate (Qu(OAc)5) was obtained by the acylation of quercetin by method (5) and then reduced with sodium metal in ethanol. The features of the electronic structure of the quercetin pentaacetate reduction product were studied by analyzing the ESR spectra of ketyl resulting from the dissociation of the corresponding pinacolate. Figure 1 shows the ESR spectrum of the sodium ketyl of acetylated quercetin. The calculation of the spin density distribution using the Priroda software allowed us to assign a doublet with а Н = 2 G in the spectrum of quercetin ketyl to the