O comportamento eletroquímico da vitamina E em meio hidro-alcoólico foi estudado na faixa de pH 3,1-12,1 aplicando-se as técnicas voltametria cíclica, eletrólise com potencial controlado e espectroscopias UV-Vis, IR e 13 C RMN. Observou-se que a presença de água tem conseqüências importantes na estabilidade química das espécies geradas eletroquimicamente. Em meio hidro-alcoólico e sobre eletrodos de carbono vítreo, a vitamina E apresenta três picos de oxidação, enquanto que apenas um pico é observado em outros solventes. Embora a reação eletroquímica no primeiro pico seja a mesma na presença e na ausência de água, a qual compreende a transferência de dois elétrons em uma etapa, duas reações eletroquímicas e três químicas subseqüentes ao primeiro pico foram pela primeira vez estabelecidas com base em evidências eletroquímicas em meio hidro-alcoólico. Estes resultados são considerados muito importantes levando-se em consideração o papel mediador na transferência de elétrons entre a fase aquosa e lipídica que a vitamina E exerce no organismo.The electrochemistry of vitamin E hydro-alcoholic solutions of pH 3.1 to 12.1 was studied by cyclic voltammetry, controlled potential electrolysis, thin layer chromatography and UV-Vis, IR and 13 C NMR spectroscopy. The presence of water was found to have important implications on the chemical stability of electrogenerated species. Vitamin E exhibits three oxidation peaks in hydroalcoholic solutions at glassy carbon electrodes in contrast to just a single peak in other solvents. Although the electrochemical reaction at the first peak was found to be the same in presence and in absence of water, which is a one-step two-electron transfer process, two heterogeneous electrochemical reactions and three homogeneous chemical reactions following this peak were established based on electrochemical evidences for the first time in alcohol aqueous conditions. This insight is considered to be very important provided the mediator character of vitamin E in the electron transfer between aqueous and lipid phase in the organism.
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