Authors: Aditya Kulkarni Shunsuke Suzuki Hideo Etoh
Publish Date: 2008/04/01
Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 153-157
Abstract
The effectiveness of subcritical liquid water processing for extraction of antioxidants from the leaves of Eucalyptus grandis biomass was evaluated by determining the capability of the processed samples to scavenge peroxynitrite radicals in vitro as compared with the extracts obtained by conventional extraction Pyrogallol 1 5hydroxymethyl2furaldehyde 2 and 4466tetramethyl35dioxocyclohex1enecarboxylic acid 3 were identified as the major products obtained from the subcritical liquid water extracts Among these pyrogallol 1 exhibited stronger antioxidant activity than butylated hydroxytoluene which was used as a standard for the antioxidant activity measurement
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