This page provides supplementary chemical data on lycopene.
Material Safety Data Sheet[edit]
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source and follow its directions.
Structure and properties[edit]
All-trans-lycopene with canonical numbering:
| Structure and properties | |
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| Index of refraction, nD | ? |
| Dielectric constant, εr | ? ε0 at ? °C |
| Bond strength | ? |
| Bond length | ? |
| Bond angle | ? |
| Magnetic susceptibility | ? |
Spectral data[edit]
To date, no X-ray crystal structure of lycopene has been reported.
| UV-Vis | |
|---|---|
| λmax | 443, 471, 502 nm in hexane |
| Extinction coefficient, ε | 1.72 × 105 L•mol−1•cm−1(at 502 nm)[3] |
| IR | |
| Major absorption bands | ? cm−1 |
| NMR | |
| Proton NMR | |
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- Except where noted otherwise, data relate to Standard temperature and pressure.
- Reliability of data general note.
References[edit]
- ^ Chasse, Gregory A.; Mak, Melody L.; Deretey, Eugen; Farkas, Imre; Torday, Ladislaus L.; Papp, Julius G.; Sarma, Dittakavi S.R; Agarwal, Anita; Chakravarthi, Sujatha; Agarwal, Sanjiv; Rao, A.Venket (2001). "An ab initio computational study on selected lycopene isomers". Journal of Molecular Structure: Theochem. 571 (1–3): 27–37. doi:10.1016/S0166-1280(01)00424-9.
- ^ Chasse, Gregory A.; Chasse, Kenneth P.; Kucsman, Arpad; Torday, Ladislaus L.; Papp, Julius G. (2001). "Conformational potential energy surfaces of a Lycopene model". Journal of Molecular Structure: Theochem. 571 (1–3): 7–26. doi:10.1016/S0166-1280(01)00413-4.
- ^ For hexane:CH2Cl2 98:2 v/v