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EPR Spectroscopy of Phenolic Plant Antioxidants

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Free Radicals, Oxidative Stress, and Antioxidants

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Plant phenols are mostly secondary metabolites comprising such diverse structures as phenolic acids, e.g., of hydroxycinnamic acid (Pratt, 1993; Foti, Piattelli, Barratta, and Ruberto, 1996) or carnosic acid and its derivates in Rosmarinus officinalis (Ho, Ferraro, Chen, Rosen, and Huang, 1994), aromatic lactones such as hydroxycoumarins (Dixon, Moghimi, and Murphy, 1975; Foti et al., 1996; Hoult, Moroney, and Paya, 1994) or isoquinolines (Hewgill and Pass, 1985a), hydroxy-anthraquinones (Malterud, Farbrot, Huse, and Sund, 1993; Mian, Fratta, Rainaldi, Simi, Mariani, Benetti, and Gervasi, 1991), xanthones (Ashida, Noguchi, and Suzuki, 1994; Minami, Kinoshita, Fukuyama, Kodama, Yoshizawa, Sugiura, Nakagawa, and Tago, 1994), the large group of flavonoids (Bors, Heller, Michel, and Stettmaier, 1995), and the rather unusual macrocyclic bis-biphenyls (e.g. marchantins) from liverwort (Asakawa, 1990). Substances belonging to each of these structural groups have been shown to act as antioxidants or vice versa as cytotoxic agents.

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Bors, W., Michel, C., Stettmaier, K. (1998). EPR Spectroscopy of Phenolic Plant Antioxidants. In: Özben, T. (eds) Free Radicals, Oxidative Stress, and Antioxidants. NATO ASI Series, vol 296. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2907-8_31

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