Structure and Biological Function of Vitamin

Vitamin E (a-tocopherol) is a phenol derivative. It is an antioxidant having also a noticeable anti-inflammatory action [51,52]. Its structure is  

It is actually close of phenolic antioxidants presented in the previous section. However, there are two specificities of which consequences will be commented in the following  

Substituents in 2 and 6 positions are methyl groups. In the case of the most current phenolic antioxidants, which 

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The third chapter mainly concentrates on stabilization of irradiated polyethylene by the introduction of antioxidants (vitamin E). The discussion of this chapter has two parts. The first part delineates the main types of antioxidants, stabilization by Vitamin E, structure and biological function of vitamin E, mechanism of stabilization of vitamin E, methods of incorporation of vitamin E, vitamin E stabilized polyethylenes the second part discusses the analysis of the content of vitamin E, using such instruments as FTIR, UV, HPLC and thermal methods. 

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