Spectral Properties of Fluorescein in Solvent-Water Mixtures: Applications as a Probe of Hydrogen Bonding Environments in Biological Systems

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 500-510

  Klonis, Nectarios ^a   Clayton, Andrew H A ^a   Voss Jr , Edward W ^b   Sawyer, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; FLUORESCEIN; SOLVENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR PROBE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANTIBODIES; FLUORESCEIN; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR PROBES; SOLVENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER;

EID: 0032061370     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1998.tb09085.x     Document Type: Article

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