)a-Tocopherol (aTp) is the form of vitamin E most commonly found in adipose tissue. Its physiological function is to prevent the accumulation of oxygen free radicals, formed as a by-product

of fatty acid oxidation. The reaction between aTp and the Galv-O free radical has a rate equation: where n is an integer. The following measurements were obtained in a series of experiments conducted with an initial concentration of [aTp] 50 mM. The natural logarithm of each measurement was also calculated \text { Rate }=\mathrm{k}[\alpha \mathrm{Tp}][\mathrm{Gal} \mathrm{v}-\mathrm{O} \cdot] \mathrm{n}