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Chlorophyll Breakdown by a Biomimetic Route
Author(s) -
Oberhuber Michael,
Berghold Joachim,
Kräutler Bernhard
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200705330
Subject(s) - chlorophyll , enantiomer , chlorophyll a , chemistry , endogeny , botany , computer science , computational biology , organic chemistry , biochemistry , biology
Colorless nonfluorescent chlorophyll catabolites (NCCs), the final products of endogenous chlorophyll breakdown in higher plants, were prepared by biomimetic partial synthesis from chlorophyll a. A nonstereoselective variant of the synthesis also provided an entry to the enantiomers of natural NCCs.