Chlorophyll and pheophytin derivatives in geochemical transformation pathways: A surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopic study

Biospectroscopy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 147-159

  Woolley, Paul S ^a   Keely, Brendan J ^a   Hester, Ronald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll transformation products; Geochemical transformations; Pheophytins; Protected surface enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PHEOPHYTIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CHLOROPHYLL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHEOPHYTINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0031609980     PISSN: 10754261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6343(1998)4:3<147::AID-BSPY1>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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