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Enhanced radical-scavenging activity of a planar catechin analogue
Kiyoshi Fukuhara1, Ikuo Nakanishi, Hisao Kansui
1Division of Organic Chemistry, National Institute of Health Sciences, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan. fukuhara@nihs.go.jp
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|May 23, 2002
Abstract:
A catechin analogue in which the geometry was constrained to be planar was synthesized. The planar catechin showed excellent radical-scavenging ability, comparable to that of quercetin, and efficient protection against DNA strand breakage induced by the Fenton reaction.

