Handbook of synthetic antioxidants Book

General concepts: approach and rationale for the design of synthetic derivatives of natural antioxidants as therapeutic agents. Synthetic derivatives of natural antioxidants: design and biological evaluation of tissue-directed alpha-tocopherol analogs; physical and chemical mechanisms of the antioxidant action of tirilazad mesylate; anionic tocopherol esters as antioxidants and cytoprotectants. Phenolic antioxidants: phenolic antioxidants - physiological and toxicological aspects; antioxidant properties of probucol; antioxidant properties of the catechol derivative nitecapone. Twenty-one aminosteroids or lazaroids: neuroprotective efficacy and mechanisms of the lazaroids. Sulfhydryl and selenium-containing compounds: antioxidant properties of ebselen; the development of diaryl chalcogenides and alpha-(phenylselenenyl) ketones with antioxidant and glutathione peroxidase-mimetic properties; modulation of glutathione. Nitrones and nitroxides: nitrones radical traps as protectors of oxidative damage in the central nervous system; antioxidant properties of nitroxides and nitroxide SOD mimics. SOD mimics: mimics of superoxide dismutase. Metal chelators: antioxidant properties of synthetic iron chelators.