“…Sulfite has, for example, been shown to "induce" the oxidation of glycerol in aqueous solutions. [15,16] Complimentary to this observation, glycerol has been shown to greatly slow the oxygen removal rate of sulfite, by as much as 25 times. [17,18] Interestingly, other authors speculated that this interaction is due to the transfer of sulfite radicals ( * SO 3 À and * SO 5 À ) which are generated during the oxygen removal reaction in aqueous solutions, to hydroxyl groups of a number of organic molecules, such as ethanol, [19] ascorbic acid, [20] and phenols.…”