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Preparation of Polyoxometalate-based Photo-responsive Membranes for the Photo-activation of Manganese Oxide Catalysts
Published on: August 7, 2018
Molecular Structure of the Photo-Oxidation Product of Ellagic Acid in Solution
Hisashi Tokutomi1, Takashi Takeda1,2, Norihisa Hoshino1,2
1Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan.
Abstract:
The photoreaction of the antioxidant ellagic acid (EA) elicits a drastic coloration in solution from colorless to yellow in aerated tetrahydrofuran, which appears as a new absorption band at 405 nm. Analysis of the X-ray crystal structure suggests that the photo-oxidation product of EA is a multiple cleavage π-structure (Ox-EA) that results from the interaction of EA with singlet oxygen followed by sequential cleavage and rearrangement steps.
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