Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry, University of Pécs, Medical School, Szigeti út 12, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary.
Molecules. 2012 Apr 30;17(5):5003-12. doi: 10.3390/molecules17055003.
Carotenoids are substantially hydrophobic antioxidants. Hydrophobicity is this context is rather a disadvantage, because their utilization in medicine as antioxidants or in food chemistry as colorants would require some water dispersibility for their effective uptake or use in many other ways. In the past 15 years several attempts were made to synthetize partially hydrophilic carotenoids. This review compiles the recently synthetized hydrophilic carotenoid derivatives.
类胡萝卜素是一种疏水性的抗氧化剂。在这种情况下,疏水性相当不利,因为如果要将它们作为抗氧化剂应用于医学或作为着色剂应用于食品化学,就需要一定的水分散性,以使其能够被有效吸收或用于许多其他方面。在过去的 15 年中,人们已经尝试合成部分亲水的类胡萝卜素。本文综述了最近合成的亲水类胡萝卜素衍生物。