Absorption Spectrum

... I've taken a fair amount of chemistry and am good on the electron orbitals and all the jazz. I also know that anthocynanins have their own unique absorption spectra that compliments all the other photosynthetic pigments. I just couldn't figure out why all the data for our anthocyanin plant had ...

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... Now, surrounding molecules can definitely affect the absorbtion spectrum. To realize this, i suggest you look into molecular orbitals, HOMO-LUMO, ... shorter wavelengths). Now, anthocian pigments should not influence chl absorption even in vivo, let alone in solution. can you tell me numerically ...

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... into it's own section of the strip, or would it actually physically bond to the chlorophyll causing the chlorophyll pigments to have altered absorption maximas?

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... though... it's not like the anthocyanin bonds to chlorophyll from what I can tell, so why would this plant heavy in anthocyanin have shifts in the absorption maxima in chlorophyll a and b? Again, I'm just wondering if the test turned out incorrectly...

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I'm talking about the results for both chlorophyll a and b. One of our plants has both chlorophyll a and b peaking at totally different wavelengths than the other plants, so I just thought it would be cool to talk about the variance in chlorophyll molecules because of things becoming ionized, or bon...

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