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A MOLECULAR MODEL FOR A PHOSPHOLIPID‐RETINALDEHYDE COMPLEX ABSORBING AT 500 nm
Author(s) -
SHARPLESS NORMAN E.,
ADAMS RALPH G.,
JENNINGS WILLIAM H.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1971.tb06087.x
Subject(s) - retinaldehyde , double bond , chemistry , phospholipid , absorption (acoustics) , oleic acid , stereochemistry , crystallography , organic chemistry , biochemistry , materials science , membrane , retinoic acid , composite material , gene
— –The structure of a complex formed from retinaldehyde and ethanolamine phosphoglyceride has been proposed as a Schiff's base stabilized byπ–πinteraction between the double bond of an oleic acid group (Δ9) and the 9–10 double bond of the retinaldehyde chain. Considerations of stereochemistry and simple MO theory indicate the proposed structure to be energetically favored, and its absorption maximum is predicted by free electron theory.