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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2008;47(16):3057–3061. doi: 10.1002/anie.200705330

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Chlorophyll breakdown in senescent plants. The chlorophylls are degraded via pheophorbide a (Pheo a), the red chlorophyll catabolite (RCC), and fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites (FCCs) to nonfluorescent chlorophyll catabolites (NCCs).[5,6]