Investigation of the Electronic Properties of Vitamin A: Focus on Milk Analysis

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Junqueira, Maria Jose V. Bell, Virgílio C. dos Anjos This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2416296/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Structural, reactivity and spectroscopic properties of vitamin A in its retinoid forms are examined. Time-Dependent DFT approach is used to study the first three electronically excited states of retinol, retinyl ester, retinol acetate and retinal. Singlet-singlet type vertical electronic transitions are considered. Computational simulations are carried out in the gas phase and in solution, within the polarizable continuum model. Once vitamin A is a natural fluorophore in milk, our findings contribute to understand its behavior in different environments, either to differentiate types of milk or to assess the quality of dairy products. 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