Kinetic study of the electron-transfer oxidation of the phenolate anion of a vitamin E model by molecular oxygen generating superoxide anion in an aprotic medium

Ikuo Nakanishi, Kentaro Miyazaki, Tomokazu Shimada, Yuko Iizuka, Keiko Inami, Masatak Mochizuki, Shiro Urano, Haruhiro Okuda, Toshihiko Ozawa, Shunichi Fukuzumi, Nobuo Ikota, Kiyoshi Fukuhara

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Abstract

Electron-transfer reduction of molecular oxygen (O2) by the phenolate anion (1-) of a vitamin E model, 2,2,5,7,8-pentamethylchroman-6-ol (1H), occurred to produce superoxide anion, which could be directly detected by a low-temperature EPR measurement. The rate of electron transfer from 1- to O2 was relatively slow, since this process is energetically unfavourable. The one-electron oxidation potential of 1- determined by cyclic voltammetric measurements is sufficiently negative to reduce 2,2-bis(4-tert-octylphenyl)-1-picrylhydrazyl radical (DOPPH•) to the corresponding one-electron reduced anion, DOPPH-, suggesting that 1- can also act as an efficient radical scavenger.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4085-4088
Number of pages4
JournalOrganic and Biomolecular Chemistry
Volume1
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Nov 2003

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