Flash Photolysis of Sulfur Dioxide

Contribution of isotopologue self-shielding to sulfur mass-independent fractionation during sulfur dioxide photolysis

Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. [1] Signatures of sulfur mass-independent fractionation (S-MIF) are observed for sulfur minerals in Archean rocks, ...

Flash photolysis of caged compounds

Photolabile ‘caged’ compounds are biologically inert precursors of active molecules, which when irradiated with a pulse of light free the active species at its site of action (see Fig. 1). Speed is the principal advantage offered by these probes; photochemical reactions can be very fast, with release of the active species often complete within a millisecond. The method can thus be used to study...

Flash photolysis and some of its applications.

Sulfur Dioxide

The ubiquity of sulfur dioxide as an air pollutant combined with reports of effects of the gas and its blood metabolite on DNA and chromosomes, prompted a study of possible mutagen action on mammalian oocytes. Utilizing in vitro and in vivo systems, mouse, ewe, and cow oocytes were examined for cytologic evidence of structural or numerical damage in meiosis. Fragmentation with rearrangement see...

Laser-flash-photolysis-spectroscopy: a nondestructive method?

Herein, we report the effect of the laser illumination during the diffuse-reflectance laser-flash-photolysis measurements on the morphological and optical properties of TiO2 powders. A grey-blue coloration of the TiO2 nanoparticles has been observed after intense laser illumination. This is explained by the formation of nonreactive trapped electrons accompanied by the release of oxygen atoms fr...