Frackowiak D, Bauman D, Manikowski BH, Martynski T. Spectral properties of chlorophyll a in liquid crystal.
Biophys Chem 1977;
6:369-77. [PMID:
880348 DOI:
10.1016/0301-4622(77)85018-7]
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Abstract
Solution of chlorophyll a in liquid crystals mixture (MBBA + EBBA) was investigated. Chl molecules are in LC in low electric field oriented. They can be divided into two groups: one strongly interacting with LC and subjected to reorientation by the electric field, and another weakly interacting with the solvent and insensitive to the voltage applied. The emission spectrum of the first type of chlorophyll is strongly perturbed. At higher voltages, the pigment molecules orientation in the plane of the electrode is another. Pigment absorption and emission anisotropy provides information about the reorientation of LC molecules. Even at high (10(-3)M) Chl concentration and regular pigment array, the interaction between the pigment and solvent exceeds pigment-pigment interaction because the solvent appears to have a stronger influence on the Chl spectrum.
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