The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Total Synthesis of Spirilloxanthin, Dehydrolycopene, and 1, 1'-Dihydroxy-1, 2, 1', 2'-tetrahydrolycopene1

JD Surmatis, A Ofner

Index: Surmatis,J.D.; Ofner,A. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1963 , vol. 28, p. 2735 - 2739

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Citation Number: 76

Abstract

We have now synthesized spirilloxanthin, containing the structure proposed by Barber, by two separate procedures, as outlined in Chart I. The synthetic spirilloxanthin was identical with an authentic sample of spirilloxanthin isolated from Rhodospirillum rubrum strain 1, 1, ...