1313613-14-7Relevant academic research and scientific papers
On the dimers of β-tocopherol
B?hmdorfer, Stefan,Patel, Anjan,Netscher, Thomas,Gille, Lars,Rosenau, Thomas
, p. 4858 - 4861 (2011)
Upon oxidation in aprotic media, β-tocopherol (2) forms a spiro-dimer (10) as the main product. The reaction mechanism is a hetero-Diels-Alder process with inverse electron demand of two intermediate ortho-quinone methide molecules. The spiro-dimer can be
