The acid-promoted reaction of the green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin gallate with nitrite ions

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 722-729

  Panzella, Lucia ^a   Manini, Paola ^a   Napolitano, Alessandra ^a   D'Ischia, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 PHENYLENEDIAMINE; ACID; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; NITRITE; PHENAZINE DERIVATIVE; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROSATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TEA;

CATECHIN; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NITRITES; STOMACH; TEA;

EID: 17644404748     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx0496486     Document Type: Article

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