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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 29.
Published in final edited form as: Free Radic Biol Med. 2012 Dec 20;57:49–60. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2012.12.004

Scheme 3.

Scheme 3

Reduction of POBN-radical adducts (ESR-active) to form the corresponding hydroxylamines (ESR-silent, but MS-active). Hydroxylamines are a much more stable redox form of radical adducts compared to POBN adducts in radical form (ESR-active). The dual spin-trapping technique allowed us to readily single out hydroxylamines as ion pairs, each with a 9-Da difference in LC/MS [32].