In recent years, a number of studies have produced evidence to suggest that consuming
carotenoids may provide a variety of health benefits including a reduced incidence of a …

The antioxidant properties of β-carotene, in addition to its proposed immunomodulatory
effects, have often been cited as the factors underlying its role in preventing disease …

Organic electrochemistry is concerned with the reduction and oxidation of organic molecules
at electrodes. Although it is now more than 200 years ago that the so-called Volta pile was …

Carotenoids are of great interest due to their essential biological functions in both plants and
animals. However, the properties and functions of carotenoids in natural systems are …

Autocatalysis during the thermal dehydrochlorination of poly (vinyl chloride)(PVC) is shown
to be a free-radical process that converts the ordinary monomer units of the polymer into …

Review of the literature on the currently recognized, thirteen vitamins yields an overview of
the electrochemical properties that include estimates of the formal potentials at physiological …

Carotenoids are well-known as light-harvesting pigments. They also play important roles in
protecting the photosynthetic apparatus from damaging reactions of chlorophyll triplet states …

Photocurrent was observed upon monochromatic illumination of an ITO electrode coated
with a TiO2 nanocrystalline mesoporous membrane with carotenoid 8′-apo-β-caroten-8 …

Pulse radiolysis studies have been used to determine the electron-transfer rate constants
between various pairs of carotenoids, one of which is present as the radical cation. These …

Carotenoids are widely distributed among plants, certain bacteria and animals, serving for
light harvesting and photoprotection in photosynthesis and as antioxidants. Electrochemical …