Synthesis of a BC-Dihydrodipyrrin Building Block of Bacteriochlorophyll a

KC Nguyen, JS Lindsey - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
A strategy for the synthesis of bacteriochlorophyll a relies on joining AD and BC halves that
contain the requisite stereochemical configurations of the target macrocycle. The BC half (1) …

Synthesis of model southern rim structures of photosynthetic tetrapyrroles and phyllobilins

ATN Tran, Z Wu, DTM Chung, P Nalaoh… - New Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The photosynthetic tetrapyrroles and their catabolic products (phyllobilins) share similar
structural features in the southern rim encompassing rings C–E with variation in the degree …

Synthesis of a model phyllobilin bearing an optical marker

ATN Tran, P Wang, S Zhang, M Jovanovic… - New Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Phyllobilins, derived from the breakdown of chlorophyll in plants, are acyclic tetrapyrroles
that bear the signature ring E of the parent macrocycle. Few synthetic studies have …

[引用][C] Bacteriochlorin syntheses-Status, problems, and exploration

VP Tran, P Wang, N Matsumoto, S Liu… - Journal of Porphyrins …, 2023 - World Scientific
Bacteriochlorins–Nature's near-infrared (NIR) chromophores–are distinguished by an
intense (𝜀∼; 105 M− 1 cm− 1) long-wavelength absorption band in the∼; 700–1000 nm …