EFFECT OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT ON POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS IN STEROL SURFACE FILM SYSTEMS.
Certain alkyl-1,2-benzanthracenes and other polycyclic hydrocarbons, when irradiated either in bulk aqueous suspensions or in the comparable excess phase under mixed surface films, were converted rapidly by ultraviolet light to photo-oxides. When held in two-dimensional solution or molecular association with sterols in mixed surface films at the air-water interface, the hydrocarbons were protected from such photodecomposition. In the one case where the comparison could be made photo-oxidation was accompanied by a loss of the ability of the hydrocarbon to interact with sterol films.
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