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CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF DEOXYSEPIAPTERIN
Baur, Ralph,Sugimoto, Takashi,Pfleiderer, Wolfgang
, p. 1025 - 1028 (2007/10/02)
A chemical synthesis of the yellow eye pigment deoxysepiapterin of Drosophila melanogaster has been achieved from 7-alkylthio pteridines by homolytic nucleophilic acylation at C-6 and subsequent hydrolyses to 6-proprionylpterin derivatives followed by desulfurizations with copper-aluminium alloy.