Novel Anti-Oxidant Mechanisms 3: Extending the Gamut to Lycopene, THC and Melatonin by Mu-SR, INS and DFT Experiments

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We propose to determine the possibility for H-addition occurring in the natural anti-oxidants lycopene, melatonin and Delta9-THC, by ALC-muSR on the HiFi instrument. Our theoretical analyses of lycopene models shows only few geometries to be stable, surprisingly including some of the cis-isomers. It is predicted that Mu-addition sites will be likewise limited by conformational and electronic restrictions, effectively rendering many sites unfavourable. Similar arguments are applied to melatonin, and delta9-THC. Objectives include: (1)Determining if H-addition is operative in the natural anti-oxidants lycopene, melatonin, and delta9-THC; (2)Determining relative probabilities of H-addition and H-abstraction from these systems; (3)Establishing theory-design of muSR experiments for anti-oxidants.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24086042
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24086042
Provenance
Creator Dr Florian Kargl; Dr Iain McKenzie; Dr Gregory Chasse
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-06-02T14:40:29Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-06-06T08:30:54Z