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Quantitative flow dichroism. II. Form dichroism at ultraviolet wavelengths
Author(s) -
Mayfield John E.,
Bendet Irwin J.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
biopolymers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.556
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1097-0282
pISSN - 0006-3525
DOI - 10.1002/bip.1970.360090605
Subject(s) - circular dichroism , chemistry , dichroic glass , dichroism , ultraviolet , linear dichroism , wavelength , macromolecule , crystallography , photochemistry , optics , biochemistry , physics
Form dichroism has been predicted to make an important contribution to the dichroic spectra of rod‐shaped macromolecules. Ultraviolet flow dichroism experiments on tobacco mosaic virus and bacteriophage fd in solvents of different refractive indices were unable to detect the phenomenon, indicating that for these viruses form dichroism is much less important than had been postulated.