Held, BarbaraTang, HaoNatarajan, PalaniSilva, Cassio Pacheco daSilva, Volnir de OliveiraBohne, CorneliaQuina, Frank H.2020-11-252020-11-2520162016Held, B., Tang, H., Natarajan, P., Silva, C. P., Silva, V. O., Bohne, C., & Quina, F. H. (2016). Cucurbit[7]uril inclusion complexation as a supramolecular strategy for color stabilization of anthocyanin model compounds. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 15(6). https://doi.org/10.1039/c6pp00060fhttps://doi.org/10.1039/c6pp00060fhttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12396Host–guest complexation with cucurbit[7]uril of anthocyanin model compounds in which acid–base equilibria are blocked resulted in essentially complete stabilization of their color. The color protection is a thermodynamic effect and establishes a strategy to stabilize these colored compounds at pH values of interest for practical applications.enArticleDepartment of Chemistry