α-Tocopherol appears to have been selected as nature's major lipid-soluble, chain-breaking antioxidant because it has a number of superior properties when compared with most synthetic phenolic antioxidants: one of these properties is shown to be very low reactivity of α-tocopheroxyl towards oxygen.
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