%A DONG Yanru, CAO Yanyan, LU Jiachun, MEI Sifan, HE Run, CHEN Ping %T Crystallographic Study on the Complex of Catechins and Caffeine %0 Journal Article %D 2021 %J Journal of Tea Science %R 10.13305/j.cnki.jts.20201127.001 %P 80-89 %V 41 %N 1 %U {https://www.tea-science.com/CN/abstract/article_2249.shtml} %8 2021-02-15 %X Through HPLC analysis, it was found that catechins and caffeine accounted for more than 88% of the total mass of green tea cream. The CATs-CAF, a simplified green tea cream system, was established by two ester catechins that with the highest content in green tea cream, and their corresponding non-ester catechins complexed with caffeine. The distribution ratio of 4 catechins in precipitate was that EC∶ECG∶EGC∶EGCG≈1∶2∶1∶2. Single crystals were prepared by complexing ECG and EC respectively with caffeine and observed under scanning electron microscopy to record their micro-morphology before and after complexation. Using X-ray single-crystal diffraction to analyze the stereochemical structure, the results show that two needle crystals were formed by intermolecular hydrogen bonding and face-to-face π-π stacking. EC formed O-H...O type hydrogen bonds with adjacent EC and CAF molecules, and π-π stacking occurred between the A ring of EC and the six-membered ring of CAF to form a 1∶1 complex of EC-CAF. While the ECG could form O-H...O and O-H...N type hydrogen bonds with adjacent ECG and CAF molecules, and the π-π stacking of ECG-CAF occurred among all aromatic rings to form a 2∶4 complex, in which the ring A and B of each ECG shared the six-membered ring of CAF separately with the ring B and A of the adjacent ECGs, while the D ring of ECG and the six-membered ring of CAF extended on the a axis in two arrangements.