The author of 《Inhibition of the autoxidation of fats and oils. X. Antioxidant activity of some catechol derivatives for vitamin A in fish-liver oil》 were Tamura, Saburo; Okuma, Kazuhiko; Okubo, Hide. And the article was published in Nippon Nogei Kagaku Kaishi in 1954. Reference of 4-Butylbenzene-1,2-diol The author mentioned the following in the article:
A com. product consisting of liver oils from cods and sharks containing about 36,000 international units of vitamin A/g. oil served as the substrate. The antioxidant activity was expressed by the stability (number of days required for 50% loss of vitamin A in the liver oil) and the inhibitor ratio defined as (Lx-Lc)/(Ls-Lc), where Lc is the stability of liver oil in the absence of antioxidant, Ls the stability of the oil treated with the standard antioxidant, IXa, Lx the stability of the oil treated with the test antioxidant. The inhibitor ratio for 0.05 and 0.10%, resp., was as follows: Et gallate, 0.70, 0.98; Et 4-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)butyrate, 0.63, 0.77; Me 6-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)hexanoate, 0.67, 0.77; [3,4-(HO)2C6H3]2(CH2)n (A) (n = 3), 0.83, 1.00; A (n = 4), 1.42, 1.40; A (n = 5), 1.17, 1.21; A (n = 6), 1.17, 1.21; A (n = 9), 0.88, 0.91; A (n = 10), 0.88, 1.00; II, 1.08, 1.12; VII, 1.08, 0.98; and III, 0.75, 0.81.4-Butylbenzene-1,2-diol(cas: 2525-05-5Reference of 4-Butylbenzene-1,2-diol) was used in this study.
4-Butylbenzene-1,2-diol(cas: 2525-05-5) belongs to organoboron compounds. Organoboron compounds are versatile intermediates and as such are some of the most important classes of reagents in modern organic chemistry. Organoboron compounds are less toxic than organostannane reagents, and unlike alkynylzinc and magnesium, many organoboron compounds possess remarkable oxidative and thermal stabilities. Reference of 4-Butylbenzene-1,2-diol
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