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JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE
Volume 175, Issue -, Pages 50-56Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2016.02.011
Keywords
Rosmarinic acid; Polyphenols; TDDFT calculations; Solvatochromism
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- Lebanese National Council of Scientific Research (NCSR), Lebanon
- American University of Beirut, Lebanon, through URB
- Kamal A. Shair Central Research Laboratory (KAS CRSL)
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Polyphenols are bioactive components that have attracted attention by chemists over many years. Rosmarinic acid (RA) is a polyphenol that is widely investigated for its broad range of potential applications as an anti-carcinogenic agent, an anti-inflammatory drug, and antioxidant. The spectroscopic properties of this molecule are addressed in details in this study. The absorption and fluorescence of RA are investigated at different pH values, characterizing the dissociated forms of RA. In a similar manner, RA was characterized in a set of different solvents. The spectral shifts of RA in the different solvents were addressed by using the Lippert-Mataga and the Stokes' shift vs. E(T)30 plots, which revealed two sets of linearity for the behavior of RA in polar protic and aprotic solvents. The lifetime decay profile of the dissociated forms of RA and those of RA in different solvents are characterized by bi-exponential lifetime decay functions. A theoretical study on the molecular structure of the different dissociated forms of RA is also reported. The simulated UV-vis spectra of the dissociated forms of RA were studied and compared to the experimental spectra by performing TDDFT calculations. Besides the UV-simulated spectra, the frontier molecular orbitals (FMO) of the different RA dissociated forms were also calculated. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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