The photodecomposition of bilirubin and other bile pigments
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- Vol. 3, 288-294
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19720000288
Abstract
The photodecomposition of bilirubin in chloroform was studied by spectrophotometry and chromatography. A fraction of the pigment decomposed with retention of the tetrapyrrolic structure, giving biliverdin, chrysin, and choletelin. The rest of the bilirubin decomposed to propentdyopents, imides, a pyrrolic acid, and simple aliphatic acids. Verdins, mesobiliviolin, and i-urobilin treated similarly retained the tetrapyrrolic structure for a longer time.Keywords
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