Reactions of Singlet Oxygen with Pine Pollen
- 17 August 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 181 (4100) , 669-670
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.181.4100.669
Abstract
Exposure of pine pollen to singlet oxygen, generated in an aqueous environment, resulted in a decrease in the relative quantities of unsaturated fatty acids that could be recovered by solvent extraction of surface and near surface pollen lipids. The involvement of excited oxygen was confirmed by substitution of deuterium oxide for water, which led to a twofold greater decrease in the unsaturated acids. The potential environmental and biomedical implications of these observations are discussed in terms of this model system.Keywords
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