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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY
Volume 60, Issue 2-3, Pages 114-119Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/S1011-1344(01)00134-8
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lumichrome; alloxazine; singlet oxygen; photophysics
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The photophysics of lumichrome, 1-methyllumichrome, and lumiflavin in water solutions have been investigated. Fluorescence lifetimes of 2.7 and 2.2 ns were observed for lumichrome and 1-methyllumichrome, respectively. the corresponding triplet state lifetimes of 17 and 18 mus have been obtained from the transient absorption spectra. Evidence for long lived species with absorption maxima near 450 nm and lifetimes of ca. 400 mus has been found in the transient absorption spectra of both lumichromes. Quantum yields for the sensitised production of singlet oxygen, phi (Delta), are 0.36 and 0.41 for lumichrome and 1-methyllumichrome, respectively, in D2O. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science BY All rights reserved.
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