Hydroxylation of Chlorinated and Unchlorinated Chlorophylls in vitro

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1 August 1988

journal article
research article
Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C

Vol. 43 (7-8) , 515-518
https://doi.org/10.1515/znc-1988-7-807

Abstract

Chlorophyll a is hydroxylated quantitatively in the 13²-position, when chromatographed on silica gel thin-layer plates. This was shown by using HPLC as a non-destructive method für analyzing photosynthetic pigments. The hydroxy-group of Chl RC I, a 13²-hydroxy-20-chloro-chl a. described by Dörnemann and Senger (1986) and Scheer et al. (1986), is shown to be artificially introduced during the purification procedure by TLC.

Keywords

CHLOROPHYLL ALLOMERIZATION
HYDROXY-CHLOROPHYLL
THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY