Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed)

362. Formation of tyrosine melanin. Part II

GR Clemo, FK Duxbury

Index: Clemo; Duxbury Journal of the Chemical Society, 1950 , p. 1795,1799

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Abstract

Various suggestions have been advanced to account for the formation of melanin from (111), but none has been proved. Clemo and Weiss (J., 1945, 702) suggested that the 5: 6- dihydroxyindole couples in position 2 and is oxidised at position 3, and that the resulting