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  1. Use of the fluorescence quantum yield for the determination of the number-average molecular weight of polymers of epicatechin with 4β→8 interflavin bonds

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    Author(s): D. Cho; W.L. Mattice; L.J. Porter; Richard W. Hemingway
    Date: 1989
    Source: Polymer 30:1955-1958
    Publication Series: Miscellaneous Publication
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    Excitation at 280 nm produces a structureless emission band with a maximum at 321-324 nm for dilute solutions of catechin, epicatechin, and their oligomers in l,4-dioxane or water. The fluorescence quantum yield, Q, has been measured in these two solvents for five dimers, a trimer, a tetramer, a pentamer, a hexamer, and a polymer in which the monomer units are catechin and/or epicatechin. In a homologous series of monodisperse oligomers in which epicatechin units are connected by interOavan bonds with 4β→8 stereochemistry Q, is found to be inversely proportional to the degree of polymerization. Measurement of Q for a polydisperse sample of this polymer yields the number-average degree of polymerization.

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    Cho, D.; Mattice, W.L.; Porter, L.J.; Hemingway, Richard W. 1989. Use of the fluorescence quantum yield for the determination of the number-average molecular weight of polymers of epicatechin with 4β→8 interflavin bonds. Polymer 30:1955-1958

    Keywords

    Epicatechin, fluorescence, molecular weight, procyanadin, quantum yield

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