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Okay, so we're going to show the mechanism of the vitamin e antioxidant.
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So the structure of vitamin e is the benzid ring attached to an ether, a cyclic ether, and that's attached to some other carbon chain.
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But really the most important thing here is the benzene ring, and we have an alcohol as well.
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So in the presence of a radical, it's going to abstract the burton from the alcohol, and as a result, it's going to leave behind the one radical in the oxygen.
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So this is able to under your resonance.
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And whenever a compound can under your resonance, it's going to make it more stable because it's better to stabilize a positive charge, negative, or even a radical over the entire structure.
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But the result of this is going to be the formation of an allelic radical.
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So if we use one electron from the radical to form a bond, and then one electron from this bond to form, i mean, yeah, one electron from that bond to form a new bond to the oxygen.
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And as a result, we'll have one electron forming a bond there, as well as an electron from that bond, forming a new bond there.
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And the end result of this is that we are going to lose the aramaticity of the ring, but it's also going to...
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So even though we do lose the armiticity, it's going to become more stable because we're going to stabilize the radical...