May, 2016
Tunneling Effect in Vitamin E Recycling by Green Tea
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- Volume
- 6
- Number
- 53
- First page
- 47325
- Last page
- 47336
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1039/c6ra05986d
- Publisher
- ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Recycling reactions of natural vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) by catechins contained in green tea were studied with a double-mixing stopped-flow spectrophotometer. The second-order reaction rate constants of the catechins and deuterated analogues were determined by using a simulation, the activation energies were obtained from the temperature dependences, and the deuterium kinetic-isotope effects were examined. From these results, a tunneling effect was found to play an important role in the vitamin E recycling reactions by the catechins, and the structure-activity relationship was clarified. Furthermore, conditions under which the tunneling effect manifests itself in various vitamin E recycling reactions in biological systems and foods were suggested. A new alpha-tocopherol-recycling capacity assay-method was also proposed, and named an ATREC assay-method after the acronym.
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- https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ra05986d
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- DOI : 10.1039/c6ra05986d
- ISSN : 2046-2069
- SCOPUS ID : 84971238041
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000377253400017