Does Solvent Influence the Ground-state Tautomeric Population of Hypericin?

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-9

  Wen, J ^a   Chowdhury, P ^a   Fulton, D B ^b   Datta, A ^a,c   Das, K ^a,d   Andreotti, A H ^b   Petrich, J W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State Universit   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^d CAT   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; HYPERICIN; SOLVENT; TETRAHYDROFURAN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; DRUG STRUCTURE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOREACTIVITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAUTOMERIC SHIFT;

FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PERYLENE; SOLVENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0242302551     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)077<0005:DSITGS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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