Antioxidant Action of Sulfur Compounds

Radical scavenging by hydroaromatics in the presence of oxygen

“…In conventional autoxidation studies, results showing that the addition of hydroaromatics accelerates the absorption of oxygen (Larsen et al, 1942; Robertson and Waters, 1948;Yasutomi and Sakurai, 1976) have been reported. It seems that hydroaromatics, typically represented by tetralin, have been considered to be easily oxidized, and they have never been used as inhibitors to deterioration, despite some exceptional results reported to be effective in limited conditions such as the additive effect of tetralin on the oxidation of cumene (Russell, 1955), tetralin with sulfur compounds on the oxidation of light hydrocarbons (Yamaji, 1960), and tetralin hydroperoxide (Thomas and Tolman, 1962).…”