@article {4610,
	title = {The metabolites of dietary chlorophylls},
	journal = {Phytochemistry},
	volume = {50},
	number = {2},
	year = {1999},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 160EBTimes Cited: 15Cited Reference Count: 70},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {195-202},
	type = {Review},
	abstract = {Chlorophylls, the green pigments responsible for photosynthesis in plants, algae and bacteria, are also part of the daily diet of herbivorous feeders. Numerous metabolic derivatives of the major green pigment, chlorophyll-a, have been found in a wide variety of organisms during the last decade. Studies of these metabolites show that some are antioxidants or cellular signaling mediators in vivo. The metabolites of bacteriochlorophylls-c and d, recently found in the deep-sea dragon fish, Malacosteus niger, function as a visual photosensitizer, enabling the fish to seek their prey in {\textquoteright}the dark{\textquoteright}. Discovery of these metabolites as well as their interesting biological functions raises questions as to the roles of chlorophyll derivatives in the chemical ecology of herbivorous life forms. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {antioxidant, AUTOXIDATION, cell signaling, CHLORIN, CHLOROPHYLL, DERIVATIVES, DIET, ESTERS, MARINE ORGANISMS, METABOLISM, PHOTOSENSITIZER, PI-CATION RADICALS, porphyrins, PRODUCTS, RUDITAPES-PHILIPPINARUM, TUNICHLORIN},
	isbn = {0031-9422},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000078216500001},
	author = {Ma, L. F. and Dolphin, D.}
}
@article {4063,
	title = {Chemical modification of chlorophyll a: Synthesis of new regiochemically pure benzoporphyrin and dibenzoporphyrin derivatives},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Chemistry-Revue Canadienne De Chimie},
	volume = {75},
	number = {3},
	year = {1997},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: XD813Times Cited: 10Cited Reference Count: 28},
	month = {Mar},
	pages = {262-275},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Starting from pheophorbide a methyl ester (5), a degradation product of chlorophyll a, routes for the preparation of 3-vinylporphyrins 6 and 9 and of an [A,C]-divinylporphyrin 16 are described. These porphyrins were obtained as a result of chemical modification of 5 on ring D and the exocyclic ring E. Diels-Alder reactions of these (di)vinylporphyrins with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, to afford new regiochemically pure benzoporphyrin derivatives 29 and 30 and dibenzoporphyrin derivative 33 for potential use as sensitizers in photodynamic therapy of tumors, were also investigated.},
	keywords = {(di)benzoporphyrins, (di)vinylporphyrins, chlorins, CHLOROPHYLL, CONVERSION, Diels-Alder, ESTERS, photodynamic, PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY, ROUTE, therapy},
	isbn = {0008-4042},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1997XD81300003},
	author = {Ma, L. F. and Dolphin, D.}
}
