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Synechoxanthin, an aromatic C40 xanthophyll that is a major carotenoid in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002
Graham, Joel E.,Lecomte, Juliette T. J.,Bryant, Donald A.
, p. 1647 - 1650 (2008)
A major aromatic, dicarboxylate carotenoid (> 15% of total) was isolated from the euryhaline cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002. This compound, which was given the common name synechoxanthin (1), has been assigned the structure (all-E) χ,χ-caroten-18,18′-dioic acid by a combination of spectroscopic (UV-vis, FT-IR, 1H and 13C NMR, LC-MS) and chemical methods. This discovery conclusively establishes that some cyanobacteria are capable of synthesizing aromatic carotenoids.
