Early steps in the free radical polymerisation of 3, 4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa) into malanin

MR Chedekel, EJ Land, A Thompson…

Index: Chedekel, Miles R.; Land, Edward J.; Thompson, Ambler; Truscott, T. George Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1984 , # 17 p. 1170 - 1172

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Abstract

Pulse radiolysis and flash photolysis-initiated one-electron oxidation of 3, 4- dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa) and other catecholamines have allowed the direct measurement of the kinetics of semiquinone disproportionation leading successively to the corresponding melanin precursors dopaquinones and dopachromes.