Quantitative electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy was used for the determination of a number and properties of short-living radicals generated thermally in maize starch with various amounts of amylose. The EPR spectra of radical adducts with N-tert-butyl-α-phenylnitrone (PBN) spin trap reveal the presence of three types of radicals of mobility related with their localization in the zones of various degree of crystallinity. Hylon VII, which represents a matrix with a high content of amylose, offers better conditions for free rotation of radical species, whereas waxy maize, containing almost exclusively amylopectin, exhibits more restricted dynamics.
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One-electron oxidation of thiols by oxidizing radicals leads to the formation of thiyl and carbon-centered radicals. It has been shown experimentally that in the absence of oxygen, the thiyl radicals derived from certain thiols of biological interest such a glutathione, cysteine and homocysteine decay rapidly by intramolecular rearrangement reactions into the carbon-centered radical. In the present work we have investigated theoretically the structure and the stability of thiyl and carbon-centred radicals of homocystein in order to check the possibility of this rearrangement.
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