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 | Carotenoid Radicals: Cryptochemistry of Natural Colorants
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| | 1) Chemistry Department, University of Alabama
2) Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion |
| (Received October 23, 2009)
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This review examines the properties and uses of carotenoid radicals. Their mechanisms of action on the molecular level play a crucial role in electron transfer and light regulation processes in photosynthesis, in the design of improved artificial solar cells, and in the scavenging of toxic free radicals. There is a remarkable increase in the quantum yield and the lifetime of the charge-separated states of the carotenoid radical cations in the supramolecular “hosts” β-glycyrrhizic acid (GA) and arabinogalactan (AG). |
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| doi:10.1246/cl.2010.148 | | JOI JST.JSTAGE/cl/2010.148 |
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