Radical-scavenging polyphenols: new strategies for their synthesis.
New strategies for the synthesis of polyphenols, compounds with antioxidant properties contained in every kind of plants, are discussed. Syntheses of different classes of polyphenols, namely ubiquinones, present in many natural systems in which electron-transfer mechanisms are involved, hydroxytyrosol, one of the main components of the phenol fraction in olives, and flavonoids, widespread in the plant kingdom, were approached by simple and environmentally sustainable methods.
Bovicelli
Paolo
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Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, CNR, Department of Chemistry, University La Sapienza, P.le A. Moro, 5-00185 Rome, Italy. paolo.bovicelli@uniroma1.it
D000818:Animals; D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical / Q000379:methods; D005419:Flavonoids / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D016166:Free Radical Scavengers / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010636:Phenols / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D010626:Phenylethyl Alcohol / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D059808:Polyphenols; D014451:Ubiquinone / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry
D005419:Flavonoids; D016166:Free Radical Scavengers; D010636:Phenols; D059808:Polyphenols; C005975:3,4-dihydroxyphenylethanol; D014451:Ubiquinone; D010626:Phenylethyl Alcohol