Phosphorescence of β-carotene
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions
- Vol. 91 (22), 4059-4061
- https://doi.org/10.1039/ft9959104059
Abstract
The lowest triplet energy level of all-trans β-carotene has been directly established as 88 ± 3 kJ mol–1 from the weak phosphorescence observed using a sensitive Fourier transform based interferometer.Keywords
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