Hydrophilic Carotenoids: Recent Progress

Molecules

Magdolna Háda¹  Veronika Nagy¹  József Deli¹ 

[1] Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry, University of Pécs, Medical School, Szigeti út 12, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary

关键词: carotenoids;    hydrophilic;    esterification;    PEG conjugates;    cycloaddition;   

DOI  :  10.3390/molecules17055003

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

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.

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