Abstract: Plastic packaging articles having an oxygen-scavenging composition, comprising: a compound comprising a ring having three ring carbon atoms forming an allyl group with an allylic hydrogen, the ring being bonded via a ring substituent to an ether or carboxylic linkage, the ether or carboxylic linkage being further bonded to a group having a molecular weight of at least 75 g/mol; and at least one transition metal.