The structure of hypericin in solution. Searching for hypericin's 1,6 tautomer

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 206-210

  Freeman, Dalia ^a   Konstantinovskii, Leonid ^a   Mazur, Yehuda ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXIDE; HYPERICIN; ORGANIC SOLVENT; TETRAHYDROFURAN;

ACIDITY; ANALYTIC METHOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ISOMERISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERYLENE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0035437545     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2001)074<0206:TSOHIS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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