Tracking Down Chlorophyll Breakdown in Plants: Elucidation of the Constitution of a "Fluorescent" Chlorophyll Catabolite

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 401-404

  Mühlecker, Walter ^a   Ongania, Karl Hans ^a   Kräutler, Bernhard ^a   Matile, Philippe ^b   Hörtensteiner, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll degradation; Porphyrinoids; Structure elucidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030989742     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199704011     Document Type: Article

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