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Chlorophyll, repository of Novel Prizes
‘Green!’
If we only see or hear about green we firstly remind of health. Most People intuitively feel that green heals diseases and makes us comfortable so when we take care of plants, walk on the grass in the park or see sprouts from branches, we feel it.
It may be human’s natural instinct. Chlorophyll is ubiquitous matter making green plants green. What’s chlorophyll? Chlorophyll is
a green pigment in plants converting nature’s solar energy to chemical energy on earth, an important material for all life and
a basic element of life involving in solar energy conduction and organic synthesis. What amazing effects of it generated 3 Novel Prized scholars and made great scholars approve it in immense researches and trials? Ever since chlorophyll was identified by Richard Willstatter, chemist, German in 1913, surprising and amazing effects of it have been demonstrated by many researchers still today in various studies and trials over 100 years. Why almost all dietary supplements such as spirulina, chlorella, and young barley leaf chlorophyll in the market emphasize on the fact that they have chlorophyll? If it is that much good, why pharmaceutical companies couldn’t make it as a drug now the time going to the moon and using stem cells? Effective properties of this natural green pigment are still unsolved secrets to our modern society. Miraculous chlorophyll! Let’s get into that secret.
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Richard Willstätter
1872. 8. 13 ~ 1942. 8. 3.
Chemist, German
Leading studies in Plant’s pigment, particularly chlorophyll. Awarded Novel Prize in 1915 by getting credit for research for the structure of chlorophyll and other pigments in plants.
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Hans Fischer
1881. 7. 27 ~ 1945. 3. 31.
Biochemist, German
Research in hemin and chlorophyll : hemin synthesis
Awarded Novel Prize in 1930 by getting credit for research for the structures of hemin, a pigment of red blood cell, and chlorophyll.
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R(obert) B(urns) Woodward
1917. 4. 10 ~ 1979. 7. 8.
Chemist, U.S.
Known for synthesis of complex organic compounds such as chlorophyll, quinine, cholesterol and vitamin B12.
Awarded Novel Prize in Chemistry in 1965.
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Chlorophyll is not just a healing agents used by
traditional health practitioners throughout
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‘Green Blood’ Chlorophyll |
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Chlorophyll is a green pigment in plants making green plants green. It has an unique ability in
converting solar energy to chemical energy through photosynthesis and plants use it to
make carbohydrate from CO2 and water. Living life get energy from solar energy through photosynthesis and keep their lives.
As seen in the pictures, chloroplast has an intermembrane space between outer and inner membranes.; Stroma, filing
in this pocket-shaped membrane space, includes Grana consisting of multi-layered thylakoids.
; And chlorophyll is in the space surrounded by a thylakoid membrane. Mesophyll of the leaves carries out
photosynthesis most actively in higher plants.1)
Thylakoid is a strong membrane built by protein and lipid. These pigments in the thylakoid membrane of the chloroplast built by various
components and properties are largely chlorophyll a and b.2)
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The structure of all chlorophyll contains a complex porphyrin ring structure and a
long hydrophobic hydrocarbon attached to the ring structure. The function of the
tail is to anchor the chlorophyll in the membrane 1).
The function of the porphyrin ring in the structure of chlorophyll is to absorb light 3),
The porphyrin ring also gives the chlorophyll its green color 2).
Porphyrin ring, head part of chlorophyll, has water solubility and Phytol, tail part, has liposolubility.
Thylakoid is consisting of protein and lipid.
To extract chlorophyll in large amount we must hydrolyze it but in acid, it’s
magnesium gets out and changes to pheophytin and in akali, it’s phytol
detaches and changes to pheophorbide.
Extracting chlorophyll without destruction from this various components and
properties of chloroplast needs a very delicate and high technique and an
economic skill for mass production is still an unsolved problem to our modern science.
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Reference
1) Taiz, L., and Zeinger, E. Plant Physiology. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company Inc. Redwood City, CA. : 179-218, 1991.
2) Ross, C., Salisbury, F. Plant Physiology. Wadsworth Publishing Company., 3 : 181-183, 1985.
3) Ting, I. Plant Physiology. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Inc., 1 : 400, 1982.
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