Abstract: Compounds useful as nutritional supplements, antioxidants, heavy metal chelators and/or as intermediates for producing other related compounds with like uses have a formula: where R1 is an aromatic backbone and R2 is a sulfur containing ligand.

Abstract: Compounds useful as nutritional supplements, antioxidants, heavy metal chelators and/or as intermediates for producing other related compounds with like uses have a formula: where R1 is an aromatic backbone and R2 is a psulfur containing ligand.

Abstract: A method of supplementing a diet and ameliorating oxidative stress in a mammal includes administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of lipid soluble, hydrophobic active compounds having a chemical structure: wherein R1 is an aromatic backbone and R2 is a sulfur containing ligand. Through formation of disulfide linkages other moieties can be attached to R2 converting the hydrophobic base into a water soluble entity, for ease of delivery, which can be reconverted back to the original compound by biochemical reduction in the blood stream.