Top Quality Natural Lycopene

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lycopene from tomato

CAS: 502-65-8

Molecular Formula: C40H56

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502-65-8 - Names and Identifiers

502-65-8 - Physico-chemical Properties

• Lycopene (Lycopene) also known as & psi;-carotene, belonging to isoprene compounds, is a kind of carotenoids. Due to the earliest isolated from tomato, so called lycopene. In the past, it has been considered that only those carotenoids which have β-ionone ring and can be converted into vitamin A, such as α-carotene and β-carotene, are related to human nutrition and health, due to the lack of this structure, lycopene does not have the physiological activity of vitamin A, so there is little research on this; However, lycopene has superior physiological function, it not only has the effect of anticancer, but also for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis and other adult diseases, enhance the body's immune system and anti-aging, etc. are of great significance, is a promising new functional natural pigment.
• lycopene (lycopene) is the main pigment of mature tomato, is a kind of non-oxygen carotenoids. This red crystal was first isolated by Hartsen in 1873 from the mother of the Berry Dioscorea, Tamus communis L.
• in 1910, Willstaller and Escher in the study of lycopene for the first time to determine its molecular formula C40H56, the molecular weight of 536.85. Schunk discovered the difference between this substance and carotene in 1913, and named it lycopene for the first time. So far, the pure product is needle-like deep red crystals. In 1930, Karrer et al. proposed that lycopene is a non cyclic planar polyunsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon containing 11 conjugated double bonds and 2 non conjugated double bonds in a chemical structural formula, which can form a beta carotene after cyclization. Naturally occurring lycopene is all-trans, but through the high temperature cooking, frying and other processing methods can make lycopene from trans configuration to cis configuration, and the cis configuration in the dried tomato or dried tomato pomace will also have a partial change. The study also showed that the physical and chemical properties of the cis isomer and the trans isomer of lycopene were different. Compared with the trans isomer, the melting point of the cis isomer of lycopene was low, the molar extinction coefficient was small, and the polarity was strong, it is not easy to crystallize, more soluble, and may return to the all-trans state during storage.
• Pharmacological effects: It has the effects of anti-oxidation, prevention and inhibition of cancer, cardiovascular protection, anti-ultraviolet radiation, prevention of osteoporosis, lowering blood pressure, and reducing asthma caused by exercise.