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Chlorophyll (Chl) derivatives are readily and regiospecifically chlorinated at C-20, the free methine-bridge next to the reduced ring D (1–3). The interest in chlorinated chlorophylls has recently been renewed after their isolation from extracts of various green plants, algae and cyanobacteria (4–9) and a suggested relation to photosystem I of oxygenic photosynthesis (4, 5). This relation, and hence the involvement in photosynthesis, has been met with criticism and now been disproved (8, 10–12).
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Struck, A., Cmiel, E., Schneider, S., Scheer, H. (1990). Photochemical Ring-Opening in 20-Chloro-Chlorophylls. In: Baltscheffsky, M. (eds) Current Research in Photosynthesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0511-5_586
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