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The Porphyrin Handbook: Chlorophylls and Bilins: Biosynthesis, Synthesis and Degradation Guilard

Marc Notes: Vols. 11-20: 1st ed; Includes bibliographical references and indexes;v. 1. Synthesis and organic chemistry -- v. 2. Heteroporphyrins, expanded porphyrins and related macrocycles -- v. 3. Inorganic, organometallic and coordination chemistry -- v. 4. Biochemistry and binding: activation of small molecules -- v. 5. NMR and EPR -- v. 6. Applications: past, present, and future -- v. 7. Theoretical and physical characterization -- v. 8. Electron transfer -- v. 9. Database of redox potentials and binding constants -- v. 10. Database of tetrapyrrole crystal structure determination -- v. 11. Bioinorganic and bioorganic chemistry -- v. 12. The iron and cobalt pigments: biosynthesis, structure, and degradation -- v. 13. Chlorophylls and bilins: biosynthesis, synthesis, and degradation -- v. 14. Medical aspects of porphyrins -- v. 15. Phthalocyanines: synthesis -- v. 16. Phthalocyanines: spectroscopic and electrochemical characterization -- v. 17. Phthalocyanines: properties and materials -- v. 18. Multiporphyrins, multiphthalocyanines, and arrays -- v. 19. Applications of phthalocyanines -- v. 20. Phthalocyanines: structural characterization. Table of Contents: Chlorophylls and Bilins: Biosynthesis, Synthesis and Degradation. Mechanism, Structure and Regulation of Magnesium Chelatase (R. D. Willows, M. Hansson). Intermediate Steps in Chlorophyll Biosynthesis: Methylation and Cyclization (D. W. Bollivar). The Last Steps of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis (W. Ruediger). The Light-Independent Protochlorophyllide Reductase: A Nitrogenase-Like Enzyme Catalyzing a Key Reaction for Greening in the Dark (Y. Fujita, C. Bauer). Chlorosome Chlorophylls (Bacteriochlorophylls c, d and e): Structures, Partial Syntheses and Biosynthesic Proposals (K. M. Smith). Chlorophyll Breakdown and Chlorophyll Catabolites (B. Krautler). Biosynthesis and Biological Functions of Bilins (N. Frankenberg, J. C. Lagarias). Synthesis of Bilins (A. Gossauer)." Contributor Bio:  Smith, Kevin M University of California, Davis