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Synthesis of 13-Acetoxy-13-desmethylretinal, Its Pigment Formation with Bacterioopsin, and Apparent Dark-Inactivating Effect on the Pigment
Seltzer, Stanley
, p. 1189 - 1194 (1995)
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
