
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clezy, PS 
A1  - Fookes, CJR 
T1  - Chemistry of pyrrolic compounds. XLI. The synthesis of the phaeophorbides c<sub>1</sub> and c<sub>2</sub> methyl esters
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1978
VL  - 31
IS  - 11
SP  - 2491
EP  - 2504
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9782491 
N2  - Phaeophorbide c1, the magnesium-free derivative of chlorophyll c1, has been synthesized as the methyl ester (1c) by means of the copper acetate cyclization of an appropriately substituted bilene-b salt. Similar syntheses of phaeophorbide c2 methyl ester (1d) and isophaeophorbide c1 methyl ester (1g) have been completed. Comparison of these synthetic compounds with natural material both as the metal free derivative and as the magnesium chelate has substantiated the accepted structures for the chlorophylls c. 
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