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• 5436-21-5 acetylacetaldehyde dimethyl acetal 
• 3917-41-7 (2E,4E)-3-methyl-5-(2,6,6-trimethyl-1-cyclohexen-1-yl)-2,4-pentadienal 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

13-Acetoxy-13-desmethylretinal: Synthesis, incorporation into bacteriorhodopsin, and its apparent inactivating effect

Bacteriorhodopsin, the protein pigment of the purple membrane light-driven proton pump, is a simple polypeptide chain of 248 amino acids. It traverses the membrane to form seven rods of high alpha-helical character. We report the synthesis and incorporati

Synthesis of 13-Acetoxy-13-desmethylretinal, Its Pigment Formation with Bacterioopsin, and Apparent Dark-Inactivating Effect on the Pigment

The title compound was designed to test for the involvement of nucleophilic catalysis, presumably by aspartate-212, in the dark cis-trans isomerizations of retinal in bacteriorhodopsin. β-Ionylidenacetaldehyde was condensed with acetylacetaldehyde dimethy