Essay
Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, is a potent radical scavenger that is used as a food preservative. It reacts preferentially with free radicals in food to form a new, less reactive resonance stabilized species. The reaction of BHT with a damaging free radical is shown below. Draw two additional resonance structures for the radical form of BHT where the free electron is delocalized. 
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