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SUBMITTER: Schenk ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3983025 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schenk Emily R ER Mendez Vanesa V Landrum John T JT Ridgeway Mark E ME Park Melvin A MA Fernandez-Lima Francisco F
Analytical chemistry 20140128 4
In the present paper, trapped ion mobility spectrometry (TIMS) and theoretical calculations have been used to study carotenoid geometrical motifs generated by photoisomerization from the all-trans geometry. Multiple geometric isomers of the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin were separated using TIMS (R > 110) for [M](+), [M + H](+), and [M - 18](+) molecular species. Comparison of observed cross sections with those obtained from molecular dynamics calculations showed that the number of cis doubl ...[more]