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Carbon Radicals of Low Reactivity against Oxygen: Radically Different Antioxidants
Author(s) -
Korth HansGert
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200701569
Subject(s) - radical , reactivity (psychology) , oxygen , chemistry , photochemistry , carbon fibers , molecular oxygen , organic chemistry , materials science , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , composite number , composite material
Radical antioxidants : Carbon‐centered radicals, which exist in thermal equilibrium with their dimers in solution, show unexpectedly low reactivity with molecular oxygen. Nevertheless their high reactivity with peroxyl radicals makes them a promising new class of chain‐breaking antioxidants (see scheme).