Heelis P F, Hartman R F, Rose S D
Faculty of Science, Health and Medical Studies, North East Wales Institute, Deeside, Clwyd, UK.
Photochem Photobiol. 1993 Jun;57(6):1053-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1993.tb02970.x.
The excited singlet state of a deprotonated, reduced flavin [1,5-dihydro-N(3)-carboxymethyllumiflavin] in aqueous solution at pH 8 has been detected by laser flash photolysis. The broad absorption band maximized at approximately 490 nm (epsilon = 9.9 x 10(3) M-1 cm-1). The lifetime of the transient was found to be 100 +/- 15 ps. The lifetime was not affected by the presence of pyrimidine dimers, which would be monomerized under these conditions. A longer-lived transient, tentatively identified as the solvated electron, was also detected. The neutral reduced flavin did not give a detectable transient.
