A density functional theory study of the free‐radical scavenging activity of aminoguanidine. Comparison with its reactive carbonyl compound and metal scavenging activities
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Abstract
Abstract Since protein glycation is related to several human diseases, it is very important to develop molecules that can inhibit its effects. This work adds the reaction of Aminoguanidine (AG) with the methoxy (˙OCH 3 ) and hydroperoxyl (˙OOH) radicals at the UM05‐2X‐SMD/6‐311+G(d,p) level of theory in water and pentyl ethanoate to simulate the physiological aqueous and lipidic environments. At physiological pH, AG is an effective ˙OCH 3 and a moderate ˙OOH scavenger in nonpolar solvents (where AG is predominantly neutral), acting exclusively by hydrogen‐atom transfer. However, reactions in a polar solvent (where AG is predominantly cationic) have smaller rate constants. Therefore, the ability of AG to scavenge free radicals seems to depend on the polarity of the environment. Taken together, the results reported herein and in previous works suggest that the scavenging of reactive carbonyl species is the main mechanism of action of aminoguanidine in the context of protein glycation inhibition.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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