Lipid peroxidation studies often employ the use of azo initiators to produce a slow, steady source of free radicals, but the lack of initiators capable of efficiently generating radicals in lipid aggregates such as micelles and membranes has created persistent problems in these investigations. We report here the synthesis and study of unsymmetrically substituted (hydrophilic/hydrophobic) azo initiators C-8, C-12, and C-16 that increase the efficiency of ...
