Voltammetric studies on vitamin E in organic solvents and within lipid bilayer membranes

• Main Author: Yao, Wei Wei
• Other Authors: Richard David Webster
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Chemistry::Physical chemistry::Electrochemistry
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/44564
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A series of model tocopherol compounds with differing degrees of methyl substitution around the aromatic ring were studied by variable scan rate (0.1- 500 V s-1) cyclic voltammetry experiments in CH3CN and CH2Cl2. On short voltammetric timescales α-TOH is oxidised in a chemically reversible –2e–/–H+...