Epimeric 3,3′-dihydroxy-ε,ε-carotenes from the skin of the yellow Costa Rican frog, Atelopus chiriquiensis
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 3,p. 96-97
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39770000096
Abstract
Two epimeric 3,3′-dihydroxy-ε,ε-carotenes have been identified from the skins of the yellow Costa Rican frog, Atelopus chiriquiensis; both compounds have the (6R,6′R,3′S) stereochemistry but differ in absolute configuration at C-3.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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