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

<abstract language="eng">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 molecula...

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Main Author: Sergio Luis Cardoso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 1997-10-01
Series:Química Nova
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40421997000500014