Fotofísica de carotenóides e o papel antioxidante de b-caroteno Photophysics of carotenoids and the antioxidant role of b-carotene

Autor: Sergio Luis Cardoso
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Química Nova, Vol 20, Iss 5, Pp 535-540 (1997)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0100-4042
1678-7064
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-40421997000500014
Popis: Carotenoid polyenes play a wide role in nature and their photophysical properties make of these pigments a focus of research in photochemistry, photobiology and photomedicine. Some aspects of the singlet and triplet states and, their interaction with molecular and singlet oxygen and free radicals are briefly reviewed in this article.
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