Hydroxyl radical

Introduction New York City during the Jazz Age was a brewing ground for chemicals of all sorts, from wood alcohol to carbon monoxide to chloroform to so many others. New York City poisonings were once taken lightly and brushed off as mere accidents or even as unimportant, but no more when Alexander Gettler took on the role of forensic chemist under Charles Norris. Gettler received his master’s degree at Columbia University in 1910, and then took a job as chemistry instructor at Bellevue Medical…

Lycopene is Red- Orange and more attracted to alumina due to its high degree of Unsaturation, which can be expected to be eluted after Yellow-Orange Carotene pigments. And the other pigments such as Xanthophylls, which are more polar due to their hydroxyl group, are strongly attracted to Alumina, which would be eluted after Lycopene band. The column should be covered by aluminum foil to prevent Isomerisation of Lycopene by light. A clear orange layer of Lycopene band formed at the beginning…