Jameson VJA, Cochemé HM, Logan A, Hanton LR, Smith RAJ, Murphy MP. Synthesis of triphenylphosphonium vitamin E derivatives as mitochondria-targeted antioxidants.
Tetrahedron 2015;
71:8444-8453. [PMID:
26549895 PMCID:
PMC4596152 DOI:
10.1016/j.tet.2015.09.014]
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Abstract
A series of mitochondria-targeted antioxidants comprising a lipophilic triphenylphosphonium cation attached to the antioxidant chroman moiety of vitamin E by an alkyl linker have been prepared. The synthesis of a series of mitochondria-targeted vitamin E derivatives with a range of alkyl linkers gave compounds of different hydrophobicities. This work will enable the dependence of antioxidant defence on hydrophobicity to be determined in vivo.
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