Photo-physical and interactional behavior of two members of group B vitamins in different solvent media

May 22, 2018

Title

Photo-physical and interactional behavior of two members of group B vitamins in different solvent media

Author

M.S. Zakerhamidi, L. Zare Haghighi, S.M.S. Ahmadian

Year

2017

Journal

Journal of Molecular Structure

Abstract

In this paper, absorption and fluorescence spectra of vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) and vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) were recorded in solvents with different polarity, at room temperature. These vitamins’ photo–physical behavior depends strongly on the solvent's nature along with different attached groups in their structures. In order to investigate the solvent-solute interactions and environmental effect on spectral variations, linear solvation energy relationships concept, suggested by Kamlet and Taft was used. Solvatochromic method was also used for measuring the ground and excited state dipole moments of these vitamins. According to our experimental results, dipole moment of these groups of vitamins in excited state is larger than ground state. Furthermore, obtained photo-physical and interactional properties of used vitamins can give important information on how this group of vitamins behaves in biological systems.

Instrument

FP-6200

Keywords

Fluorescence. Chemical stability, Biochemistry