Electrochemical reductive acylation of astacene; a route to the carotenoid astaxanthin
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 9,p. 387-388
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39780000387
Abstract
Controlled potential electrolysis of astacene (2) gives, in the presence of acetic anhydride, either 2e or 4e reduction depending upon the potential and the solvent-supporting electrolyte system, a new retro-tetra-acetate (7) resulting from 2e reduction; by 4e reduction, astaxanthin tetra-acetate (5) is obtained which may be hydrolysed to astaxanthin (1).This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Electrochemical reductive acylation of the carotenoid canthaxanthinJournal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1976