Free radicals generated during oxidation of green tea polyphenols: Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy combined with density functional theory calculations

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1076-1088

  Severino, Joyce Ferreira ^a   Goodman, Bernard A ^a,b   Kay, Christopher W M ^c   Stolze, Klaus ^d   Tunega, Daniel ^e,f   Reichenauer, Thomas G ^a   Pirker, Katharina F ^a  

^a ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Epicatechin gallate; Epigallocatechin; Epigallocatechin gallate; EPR spectroscopy; Free radicals; Green tea; Oxidation; Superoxide anion radicals

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; EPICATECHIN; EPICATECHIN GALLATE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GALLIC ACID; GALLOCATECHIN; GREEN TEA EXTRACT; SUPEROXIDE;

ALKALINITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DRUG OXIDATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEA;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CATECHIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREE RADICALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SUPEROXIDES; TEA;

EID: 63049136498     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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