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Antioxidant Mechanisms of Secondary Natural Products

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Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defenses in Biology

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Atmospheric oxygen is unusual among stable molecules in that its ground state has two unpaired electrons. This permits it to enter into energetically favorable reactions (eq. 6.1) with many organic free radicals.

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Larson, R.A. (1995). Antioxidant Mechanisms of Secondary Natural Products. In: Ahmad, S. (eds) Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defenses in Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9689-9_6

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