Mild oxidative cleavage of β,β-carotene by dioxygen induced by a ruthenium porphyrin catalyst: characterization of products and of some possible intermediates
- 17 January 2001
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in New Journal of Chemistry
- Vol. 25 (2) , 203-206
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b006975m
Abstract
Mild oxidative cleavage of β,β-carotene by dioxygen is induced by a ruthenium tetramesitylporphyrin catalyst, and it leads to the full possible range of β-apocarotenals and β-apocarotenones. The slow reaction kinetics allow the sequence of events leading to double bond cleavage over a period of 24 h to be monitored by HPLC-DAD and HPLC-MS.Keywords
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