Ab initio and DFT conformational analysis of selected flavones: 5,7-dihydroxyflavone (chrysin) and 7,8-dihydroxyflavone
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ab initio and DFT conformational analysis was performed on the flavone derivatives chrysin (5,7-dihydroxyflavone; 2-phenyl-5,7-dihydroxy-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one) and 7,8-dihydroxyflavone (2-phenyl-7,8-dihydroxy-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one). The structural features required for optimal stabilization in each molecule were identified. It was discovered that sparsely placed hydroxyl groups, particularly with hydrogen bond-like interactions, resulted in lowering the potential energy minimum for the molecules. It was also noted that one of the factors capable of destroying co-planarity was steric interference between closely placed functional groups across the phenyl and the benzo-γ-pyrane ring. Studies performed on the radical forms of the flavonoids, however, showed that the unpaired electron is confined only to the benzo-γ-pyrane ring, and not delocalized across the phenyl ring.Key words: flavonoid, flavone, chrysin, ab initio conformational analysis, anti-oxidant, free radical, 5,7-dihydroxy flavone, 7,8-dihydroxyflavone.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".