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Free electron interaction with genistein: positive and negative ion formation
Vy T T Nguyen1,2, Jiakuan Chen1,2, Milan Ončák1
1Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck Technikerstrasse 25 A-6020 Innsbruck Austria milan.oncak@uibk.ac.at stephan.denifl@uibk.ac.at.
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Genistein is a member of the group of isoflavones, which are present in edible plants and possess several health supporting properties. In this work we used a crossed beam experiment coupled to mass spectrometry. We investigated the formation of anions and cations from neutral genistein upon the interaction with electrons having kinetic energies from about 0 eV to 70 eV. In the case of negative ion formation, we find the intact negatively charged genistein as the most abundant anionic species. The dehydrogenated parent anion is observed as the only fragment anion formed by dissociative electron attachment to genistein. The parent and dehydrogenated species also represent prominent cations. However, we also observe abundant signals for ions formed upon cleavage of the centred ring via retro-Diels-Alder rearrangement. Quantum chemical calculations on the threshold energies support the experimentally found appearance energies.
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