C. Suarna, M. Baca, D. Craig
2006
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Lipids
Abstract
In order to undertake a quantitative study by high-performance liquid chromatography of the rate of oxidation of 2,2,5,7,8-pentamethyl-6-chromanol (1), the model compound of α-tocopherol, a number of potential products were required as standards. Among these compounds were 2,2,7,8-tetramethylchroman-5,6-dione (10) and 2,2,7-trimethyl-6-hydroxychroman-5,8-dione (17), the model compounds of tocored and tocopurple, respectively. Attempts to synthesize 10 and 17 led to the isolation of 8-hydroxymethyl-2,2,7-trimethylchroman-5,6-dione (14) and 1,2-bis(2,2,7-trimethylchroman-5,6-dione-8-)ethane (19) a dimer of 10. Purification by thin-layer chromatography of the spirodimer (20) of 1 resulted in an acid-catalyzed decomposition to 1-(2,2,7,8-tetramethyl-6-chromanol-5-)2-[2-(3-methyl-3-hydroxybutyl)-5,6-dimethyl-1,4-benzoquinone-3-]ethane (23), a new chromanol-quinone dimer.