Conformational preferences of flavone and isoflavone in the gas phase, aqueous solution and organic solution

Flavone and isoflavone are an important class of secondary metabolites that are widely distributed in nature. In this Letter we have determined the conformational preferences of each compound in the gas phase, aqueous solution and organic solution. Gas-phase calculations were performed using AM1, MNDO, HF/3-21G, HF/6-31G(d) and B3-LYP/6-31G(d) calculations. Besides solution calculations were performed using the MST solvation model.