Use of the fluorescence quantum yield for the determination of the number-average molecular weight of polymers of epicatechin with 4β→8 interflavan bonds

Polymer

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1989, Pages 1955-1958

  Cho, Donghwan ^a   Mattice, Wayne L ^a   Porter, Lawrence J ^b   Hemingway, Richard W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research   (New Zealand)

^c Southern Forest Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

epicatechin; fluorescence; molecular weight; procyanadin; quantum yield

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; OLIGOMERS--SOLUTIONS;

CATECHIN; EPICATECHIN; PROCYANADIN; QUANTUM YIELD;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0024769666     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0032-3861(89)90277-2     Document Type: Article

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