Abstract Reduction and subsequent acetylation of melanochrome, the last UV detectable intermediate in the biosynthesis of eunelanins, leads to the isolation of a crystalline derivative, leucomelanochrome A acetate, identified as 5, 6, 5′, 6′-tetraacetoxy-2, 2′- biindolyl (5).
[Pezzella, Alessandro; Panzella, Lucia; Crescenzi, Orlando; Napolitano, Alessandra; Navaratman, Suppiah; Edge, Ruth; Land, Edward J.; Barone, Vincenzo; D'Ischia, Marco Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006 , vol. 128, # 48 p. 15490 - 15498]
