Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2007;46(45):8699–8702. doi: 10.1002/anie.200703587

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Outline of chlorophyll breakdown in senescent leaves.[11] The chlorophylls are degraded via pheophorbide a (Pheo a), “red” chlorophyll catabolite (RCC), and primary “fluorescent” chlorophyll catabolite (pFCC) to the “nonfluorescent” chlorophyll catabolites (NCCs, in which, typically, the residues R1, R2, and R3 vary).[11,13-15]