A new vitamin E analogue more active than α‐tocopherol in the rat curative myopathy bioassay
- 1 September 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 205 (1), 117-120
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(86)80877-8
Abstract
Vitamin E owes its biological effects to its antioxidant activity. Kinetic and mechanistic studies on phenolic antioxidants in vitro have led us to design and synthesize all-rac-2,4,6,7-tetramethyl-2-(4',8',12'-trimethyltridecyl) -5-hydroxy-3,4-dihydrobenzofuran, 3. In the rat curative myopathy bioassay the acetate of this compound has 1.5-1.9 times the bioactivity of all-rac-alpha-tocopherol acetate. This represents the first time that a rationally designed synthetic 'vitamin' has been found to have more activity in vivo than the corresponding natural vitamin.Keywords
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