Magnetic nanoantioxidants with improved radical-trapping stoichiometry as stabilizers for inhibition of peroxide formation in ethereal solvents

Caterina Viglianisi; Alessia Scarlini; Lorenzo Tofani; Stefano Menichetti; Andrea Baschieri; Riccardo Amorati

doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53531-5

Magnetic nanoantioxidants with improved radical-trapping stoichiometry as stabilizers for inhibition of peroxide formation in ethereal solvents

Sci Rep. 2019 Nov 20;9(1):17219. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-53531-5.

Authors

Caterina Viglianisi¹, Alessia Scarlini², Lorenzo Tofani², Stefano Menichetti², Andrea Baschieri³, Riccardo Amorati³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry "U. Schiff", University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy. caterina.viglianisi@unifi.it.
² Department of Chemistry "U. Schiff", University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
³ Department of Chemistry "G. Ciamician", University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 11, 40126, Bologna, Italy.

Abstract

Graphite-coated magnetic cobalt nanoparticles (CoNPs) decorated with hindered phenolic antioxidant analogues of 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (BHT, E321) provided easily removable nanoantioxidants capable of preventing the autoxidation of organic solvents as tetrahydrofuran (THF).