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ChemInform Abstract: Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence: Chemical Behavior of the Chromophore Towards Oxidants.
First published: May 9, 1995
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Reduction of the azido ketone (I) by triphenylphosphine, with rigorous exclusion of air, generates cleanly a mixture of the chromophore models (II), (III) and (IV) of dinoflagellate luciferin. These compounds react with oxygen (or oxidants) at the C-13 position. On this basis a mechanism for the bioluminescent air-oxidation of luciferin is suggested.
