Cyclic salen-metal compounds: reactive oxygen species scavengers useful as antioxidants in the treatment and prevention of diseases

摘要

This invention provides antioxidant cyclic salen-metal compounds, compositions of such antioxidant cyclic salen-metal compounds having superoxide activity, catalase activity and/or peroxidase activity and methods of using such antioxidant cyclic salen-metal compositions to treat or prevent a disease associated with cell or tissue damage produced by free radicals, such as superoxide. In one embodiment, the present invention provides cyclic salen-metal compounds having the following general formula: