Generation of the radical cation of β -carotene in chloroform via the triplet state as revealed by time-resolved absorption spectroscopy

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 326, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 33-38

  Fujii, Ritsuko ^a   Koyama, Yasushi ^a   Mortensen, Alan ^b   Skibsted, Leif H ^b  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Roy Vet A ^*  (Denmark)

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EID: 0003010735     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(00)00756-9     Document Type: Article

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