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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: European J Org Chem. 2009 Jan;2009(1):3–169. doi: 10.1002/ejoc.200800804

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Tetrapyrrolic chlorophyll catabolites in senescent higher plants.[4,5] Chlorophylls [Chl a (R = CH3) or Chl b (R = CH=O)] are degraded via pheophorbide a (Pheo a), the “red” chlorophyll catabolite (RCC) and primary “fluorescent” chlorophyll catabolites (pFCCs) to “nonfluorescent” chlorophyll catabolites (NCCs, such as Hv-NCC-1, 1).