Artificial Antioxidants Synthesized in Russia
Published October 26th, 2007
Scientists are in permanent search for new natural antioxidants, which are vitamins, amino-acids, natural phenol compounds. Think tank from Russian city of Novosibirsk has synthesized artificial analogues for said natural substances – water soluble sulphur-containing phenol compounds, which show useful biological properties.
Scientists have proved synthetic compounds showed antioxidant activity – they protected lipds and proteins from oxidation. Such activity is due to peculiar chemical structure of phenol compounds, which contain sulphur atoms together with oxygen atoms. Oxygen atoms neutralize unpaired electrons of free radicals, thus eliminating their maleficent effect on a cell. Sulphur atoms act the same, thus adding even more antioxidant activity to synthetic compounds.
Another significant advantage of these compounds is their solubility in water, which provides fast absorption and transfer of the substance in an organism.
Later scientists have discovered antiinflammatory activity of synthetic phenols, which is due their ability to affect genes, responsible for inflammation processes.
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