Chromatographic Separation of Vitamin E Enantiomers

Vitamin E is recognized as an essential vitamin since its discovery in 1922. Most vegetable oils contain a mixture of tocopherols and tocotrienols in the vitamin E composition. Structurally, tocopherols and tocotrienols share a similar chromanol ring and a side chain at the C-2 position. Owing to th...

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Main Authors: Ju-Yen Fu, Thet-Thet Htar, Leanne De Silva, Doryn Meam-Yee Tan, Lay-Hong Chuah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Molecules
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/22/2/233