A new molecular mechanism of blue color
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Tadao Kondo; Minoru Ueda; Minoru Isobe; Toshio Goto
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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French
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Protocyanin (1), a blue pigment of Centaurea cyanus, is composed of six molecules each of malonylflavone (2) and succinylcyanin (3), complexed with magnesium and ferric ions. The blue color of 1 is developed by an LMCT interaction between anthocyanin and ferric ion, rather than arising from the form